Cantilever Library Shelving
The leading supplier of storage solutions in any industry providing shelving, lockers, casework & everything in between.
Cantilever Shelving: Built Strong. Designed Thoughtfully.
📚 Also known as the standard in library shelving, cantilever shelving was designed specifically for all libraries. This shelving style offers a broad range of options and storage accessories to match the needs of your library or business. From general storage needs, books, and other library materials, cantilever shelving systems provide durable and dependable material storage.
Bradford Systems Corporation helps libraries plan cantilever library shelving and library storage around open stacks, staff areas, archives, media, and changing collection sizes. These cantilever shelving systems support flexible library shelving layouts while keeping books and materials easy to browse, retrieve, and reconfigure. We offer endless choices customized to your library’s needs, including casters, bins, and more.
For public, academic, and private libraries, cantilever library shelving supports compact library storage without making aisles feel crowded. Adjustable library shelving can help teams organize books, periodicals, reference materials, media, and back-of-house collections by use, size, and access frequency.
Connect with Bradford Systems
Fill in below form as complete as possible and one of our representatives will be in touch with you shortly
"*" indicates required fields
Cantilever Shelving Features
- Unlimited Shelving Options: Designed to adapt to both stationary and mobile applications, cantilever or bookstack shelving offers a wide range of options and storage accessories to accommodate a variety of media formats.
- Heavy-Duty Shelving Construction: Engineered for stability, strength, and functionality, our shelving construction meets or exceeds American Library Association standards for structural integrity.
- Anti-Tip Protection: Systems can be equipped with anti-tip devices either in the system’s overhead or floor anchors, providing an extra measure of system safety—and stability to those in seismic areas.
- Ability to Reconfigure/Expand System: Easily assembled, disassembled, and reassembled, this library shelving can relocate or expand easily as needs change.
- Durable Paint Finishes: With a durable powder-coat paint finish, our cantilever shelving systems can exceed the ALA’s expectations for scuff, scratch, and chip requirements.
- Wide Array of Design Options: Library shelving is available in a wide range of colors, and can be finished with end-panels and finishes that blend seamlessly with the colors and aesthetics of your space.
Spacesaver Flex Shelving
The ability to remain flexible in any situation is invaluable. A sudden need to pivot on whatever the plan may have been? No worries, employing a little bit of flexibility will take care of that shift with ease. From scheduling a meeting to creating the ideal environment to host it, everything is easier when you include flexible solutions in your resolution. Let’s look at how Spacesaver can deliver flexibility for operations in any industry.
For more than 50 years, Spacesaver’s industry-leading storage solutions have kept users functioning at the highest level. Continuing to push the possibilities of what our systems can provide, we created our Flexible Shelving units. With this innovative movable solution, a sudden need to reconfigure an existing library shelving layout or relocate a myriad of materials to a new space can be fulfilled with a simple push in the right direction.
A-Frame Cantilever Shelving
For more versatile cantilever shelving, look to A-frame shelves. A-frame shelving can be configured in several ways, including with or without casters for either mobile or static library shelving.
Because of the numerous shelving configurations, many libraries use A-frame shelves to showcase their new release books, magazines, movies, and other media that is hard to display on traditional library bookshelves.
Cantilever Library Shelving – FAQs
A post-and-arm library shelving design that supports books and media with minimal obstructions, allowing easy browsing, flexible layouts, and organized library storage.
Absolutely. Mounting cantilever shelving units on mobile carriages can double library storage capacity in the same space while preserving browsing comfort.
Library shelving can be powder-coated steel, wood-grain laminate, or hybrid (Wood-Tek) for aesthetic appeal.