Lockers for students – now available at the Cruciform Hub

We are pleased to announce that today, Tuesday 08/05, a new service has been launched in the Cruciform Hub. UCL lockers for students are now available at the touch of a UCL ID card, for short loan (1 day or over the weekend). The project has been a joint development by Library Services and ISD, working with Estates and approved suppliers iLockerz. The Cruciform Hub will act as a pilot site with 44 lockers. If successful, additional banks of lockers will be rolled out to replace existing lockers and potentially added where there is demand from Site Librarians and library users.

Ben Meunier (Director of Operations) said: “This is a service which UCL students have been requesting for some time, via surveys and ad hoc requests. We have a small number of banks of key-controlled lockers at some sites, however it has been challenging to manage. This new system is easy to use for students and it ensures that we can easily monitor whether lockers are being emptied as necessary.

I am very grateful to the project team in ISD and Library Services who have helped to bring this project to fruition, particularly Maria Fernandez as Project Manager and the Library team at the Cruciform Hub, who have worked hard to ensure that the system can work for our users.”

Details on the service can be found at the dedicated webpage: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/lockers. The pilot is restricted to UCL students but the service may be extended to other groups of library users in future, subject to demand.

 

Ben Meunier (Project Sponsor), Anna Di Iorio (Librarian, UCL Cruciform Hub and Site Libraries Manager) and Peter Dennison (Business Service Owner)