Purpose
To store and distribute curriculum materials, core novels, and consumables; particularly critical in grades 6–12 but increasingly needed in elementary.
Activities
- Housing curriculum sets and student consumables
- Storing teacher editions and boxed instructional materials
- Large-scale textbook distribution and returns
- Processing of damaged or obsolete materials
Considerations
- High-capacity shelving, ideally movable compact shelving
- Wide aisles for safe access
- Adequate clearance for pallets during inventory peaks
- Close proximity to circulation desk (secondary)
- Space for extra consumables (often in 5-box-per-teacher sets at elementary)
- Work surface for sorting and organizing
- Secure storage rooms with restricted-access locks at high schools
Purpose
To store and distribute curriculum materials, core novels, and consumables; particularly critical in grades 6–12 but increasingly needed in elementary.
Activities
- Housing curriculum sets and student consumables
- Storing teacher editions and boxed instructional materials
- Large-scale textbook distribution and returns
- Processing of damaged or obsolete materials
Considerations
- High-capacity shelving, ideally movable compact shelving
- Wide aisles for safe access
- Adequate clearance for pallets during inventory peaks
- Close proximity to circulation desk (secondary)
- Space for extra consumables (often in 5-box-per-teacher sets at elementary)
- Work surface for sorting and organizing
- Secure storage rooms with restricted-access locks at high schools
