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We thank Miles & Stockbridge P.C., a leading law firm with offices in Baltimore and the mid-Atlantic region, for entrusting Hoffberger Moving Services LLC with the relocation of their headquarters in Baltimore.  Best of luck in your new location!

Moving a large law firm is like moving a library, offices and classified government documents – all at once.

Hoffberger has vast experience with all of these types of moves, which we believe gives us the unique ability to provide exceptional services for legal clients.

In March, we had the opportunity to move the law firm of Ober|Kaler, including all existing furniture and equipment, to its new Baltimore office in the 100 Light Street tower. The firm has 230 Baltimore employees, who now occupy nearly 95,000-square-feet in what was formerly known as the Legg Mason building.

We were able to move shelving and some files in advance. However, the bulk of the move was completed in two weekends, starting on Friday night and continuing through the night and through Saturday, to avoid disrupting normal business hours. Like all of our law office moves, it required incredible precision and attention to details.

• The legal library, all file rooms, and war rooms had to be packed and unpacked without moving a single volume out of place.

• Thousands of confidential, legal-sized files had to be packed and moved in correct order. In some cases, we had to interfile – combine files, in order, from multiple locations in the old building to a single location in the new building.

• Computers, furniture, and other office equipment were transferred to the 35-story building, the city’s tallest. In all, we disconnected and reconnected more than 200 computers.

Click here for more information about Ober|Kaler’s recent move.

We wish Ober|Kaler continued success in its new location.

Few things in the moving business require more precision than a library move.

Every single volume has to be meticulously packed, shipped and unloaded in the correct order – shelf by shelf. If even a single row of books is moved out of place, it could knock an entire collection out of order. That could delay a library opening by several days!

In short, hiring an experienced library moving company matters.

Over the years, Hoffberger Moving Services has developed a reputation as one of the most trusted library movers in the Baltimore, Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia region. We have experience with libraries ranging from 2-million volume university collections to personal studies.

We know how important books are to our clients, and we’ll take any measures necessary to protect them. We have moved rare, priceless and out-of-print books that required white-glove handling and specially made protective containers. For all library relocations, our movers use our own, custom-built moving carts that are packed and sealed in protective shrink wrap.

In fact, during our most recent library move, a 50,000-volume collection at The Library of the U.S. National Arboretum, Washington, D.C., we:

• Cleaned each book prior to packing with a gentle vacuum.
• Combined collections from multiple locations to one location on the new shelves, a process known as “interfiling.”

What’s more, Hoffberger can also offer climate-controlled warehouse space for books that need to be stored for any period of time.

Some of our current and past library clients include:

• The Edward Rhodes Stitt Library of the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. We packed and moved the 50,000-volume collection and dismantled and rebuilt all shelving.
• Washington County Free Library System Headquarters, Hagerstown, MD. We will pack 250,000 volumes, including rare books, and dismantle and rebuild 1,100 sections of shelving. (Scheduled for November).
• US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Library, Washington, D.C. We will move 60,000 volumes in four stages to minimize disruptions. (Scheduled for later this year.)
• Johns Hopkins University Library Service Center, Baltimore, Maryland. At 2 million volumes, this has been our largest library move to date.
• Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia. We moved 450,000 volumes – Shepherd’s entire library – into another building. Then, we moved them again a year later to spread the collections between the new and the newly renovated original building.