Library Reading Hall — Library Furniture

Ministry of Education

Library Furniture

Book racks, display shelving, glazed and steel cupboards, study tables and reading-room seating — the whole library, dimensioned to the floor plan you send.

At a glance

Service information

Shelving is a load problem before it is a furniture problem.

A full run of books is heavier than most library specifications assume, and shelving that deflects is shelving that will keep deflecting. We build library racks and cupboards in welded, powder-coated steel from our own plants, and we size the run to the floor plan rather than repeating a catalogue unit until the wall ends.

The rest of the room matters too. Study tables, reading chairs, the glazed cupboards that hold reference and rare stock, and the step ladder that lets a librarian reach the top shelf safely — all made to the same standard and delivered on one programme.

  • Steel Racks & Cupboards
  • IS 17634 Licensed Storage
  • Reading Room Seating
  • Laid Out to Your Floor Plan
Library Bookshelf — Library Furniture
Library Bookshelf

What we make

What we manufacture and deliver.

Any one of these can be contracted on its own, or the whole interior delivered under a single award against one drawing set and one schedule. Everything listed is manufactured, supplied and installed by us — not sub-let after award.

  • Book Racks & Shelving

    Open shelving runs — single and double sided — sized to the aisle spacing your floor plan allows.

    • Welded steel uprights and shelves, powder-coated
    • Single and double-sided runs
    • Wall-mounted shelving where floor space is short
    • Shelf pitch set to the stock, not to a standard unit
  • Display Shelving

    Face-out display for new arrivals and featured stock, which is what makes a library browsable.

    • Face-out book display shelving
    • Free-standing and wall-mounted formats
    • Mixed display-and-storage configurations
    • Same finish as the main shelving run
  • Glazed & Steel Cupboards

    Closed storage for reference, rare and restricted stock — glazed where it should be visible, solid where it should not.

    • Single and double-door glazed cupboards
    • Solid steel cupboards for restricted stock
    • Lockable configurations
    • Covered by our BIS licence to IS 17634:2022
  • Study Tables & Carrels

    Reading-room tables and individual study positions, in steel-framed and mixed constructions.

    • Shared reading-room tables
    • Individual study positions
    • Steel-framed metal study tables
    • Covered by our BIS licence to IS 17633:2022
  • Reading Room Seating

    Chairs for long sittings, from the range assessed against ergonomic criteria.

    • Library and study chairs
    • Seat heights matched to the table height
    • Work chairs covered by our BIS licence to IS 17631:2022
    • AIOTA-assessed seating range
  • Library Access Steps

    A safe way to reach the top shelf, which every high shelving run needs and most orders forget.

    • Three-step metal library ladder
    • Stable base with non-slip treads
    • Finished to match the shelving
    • Supplied with the shelving run rather than sourced separately
Library Seating Area

Standards & compliance

Built to the standards this work is inspected against.

Wording here is deliberate: we design and manufacture to these criteria.

  • Storage units IS 17634:2022 — manufactured under BIS Standard Mark licence.
  • Tables and desks IS 17633:2022 — manufactured under BIS Standard Mark licence CM/L-7700279520.
  • Work chairs IS 17631:2022 — manufactured under BIS Standard Mark licence CM/L-7700279419.
  • Ergonomics AIOTA assessment of the education furniture range, certificate AIOTA/ERG/C-206/2025-26.
  • Green procurement GreenPro Ecolabel, GRIHA listing and FSC Chain of Custody, licence code FSC-C221650.
Three-Step Library Ladder — Library Furniture
Three-Step Library Ladder

Certificates held

Not what we design to — what we are audited for.

The certificates from our register that apply to this work, each with its issuing body and certificate number. Nothing here is a claim we have not been audited for.

Certificates held Not what we design to — what we are audited and licensed for, with the certificate number on each.

  • IS 17631 Work chairs — ISI licence Bureau of Indian Standards · CM/L-7700279419
  • IS 17633 Tables and desks — ISI licence Bureau of Indian Standards · CM/L-7700279520
  • IS 17636 Bunk beds — ISI licence Bureau of Indian Standards · CM/L-7700298415
  • AIOTA Ergonomics — education range All India Occupational Therapists’ Association · AIOTA/ERG/C-206/2025-26
  • GreenPro Green product ecolabel Confederation of Indian Industry · GPFIP626001 – GPFIP626011 (product codes)
All 20 certificates, with issuing bodies and validity dates

Why Finex

Why departments place this work with us.

  • 01

    Product licences, not just a management system

    Four BIS Standard Mark licences against the Indian Standards for work chairs, tables, storage and bunk beds — product-level approvals with their own CM/L numbers, published with the numbers on them.

  • 02

    Assessed for ergonomics

    The education range holds an Ergonomic Design and Performance assessment from the All India Occupational Therapists’ Association, certificate AIOTA/ERG/C-206/2025-26.

  • 03

    Rated for green procurement

    A GreenPro Ecolabel from the CII, a GRIHA Product Catalogue listing and FSC Chain of Custody for timber — three separate registers a tender can check independently.

  • 04

    Made in our own plants

    Steel forming, welding, powder coating, upholstery and assembly all happen across our two plants in Dindori, Nashik — so a campus order is one schedule and one delivery programme, not a chain of suppliers.

FAQ

Questions we get on this scope.

If yours is not here, ask — we would rather answer it properly.

Yes, and it is the right way to order it. Send the floor plan with the aisle widths and the ceiling height and we will set the run lengths, the shelf pitch and the double-sided sections to fit — rather than repeating a catalogue unit until the wall runs out, which is how libraries end up with a half-width bay at the end of every aisle.

We do not publish a load figure, because it depends on the shelf length, the depth and the gauge specified for your order, and a number quoted without those is meaningless on a tender. Tell us the shelf length and what is going on it and we will confirm the specification in writing for that scope.

Yes — most institutional orders are. Send the drawing, the room layout or just the quantities and the sizes you need. Where an item is a variation on a model covered by one of our BIS licences we will say so, and where it is a fresh design we will say that too, because the two are not the same thing on a tender document.

Yes — single and double-door glazed cupboards for stock that should be visible but not handled, and solid steel cupboards for restricted material. Both can be supplied lockable. They fall under the same BIS licence to IS 17634 as the rest of our storage.

Send the bill of quantities, the room schedule or the tender document. You get back a priced scope against your line items and a dated delivery programme, and we will tell you plainly if any part of it is outside what we manufacture rather than quoting it and buying it in later.

Send us the drawing.

A tender number, a specification or a drawing set — we will confirm what we can build and by when, within two working days.

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