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LapSafe® brings you tested and proven secure, charging trolleys, cabinets and lockers for laptops, Chromebooks, tablets, and other IT equipment. However, were you aware that as well as laptop trolleys and cabinets, LapSafe® also offers self-service lockers customised to your workflows?

Libraries have always been important to children and adults alike. Today, we are in the midst of a tremendous shift in the way we consume literature and find information. However, the one thing that hasn’t changed is that libraries continue to play a central role in providing open and free access to information and resources for everyone.

At times you may need to provide your workforce easy access to technology. Or, you may have to manage dozens of devices all at once (all those new ‘working from home’ laptops returning to the workplace!). Are you trying to create a chilled working environment, free of desk top clutter?

Technology within sixth forms and colleges has evolved over the last few years, changing the way students learn and access course content. I don’t need to tell you that the Covid pandemic has increased the need for online content and remote learning.

A university survey produced in 2016 by LapSafe® showed that 44% of UK universities had automated their manual laptop loan service or introduced the new service into their libraries. Of these, a whopping 87% had chosen to do so by using LapSafe®’s Self-Service Device Loan Lockers. This figure has continued to increase year on year.

How much time is wasted loaning out laptops or tablets to your frontline staff at the beginning of every shift? Do you have a member of staff manually ‘checking-out and checking-in’ devices? By automating this process, you can save valuable time and reduce staff interaction whilst saving IT services time up-dating devices.

During the last twelve months we have seen the increased demand for more and more digital devices to be made available to students. The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically increased the need for remote learning, anytime and anywhere.

We are all familiar with the need to social distance, something that has become part of daily life for most of us, but what does this mean for daily life in an education setting? How can we help staff and students work together whilst staying apart?

Much of the advice being given is about managing people and behaviour, but what of our environments? The classroom, the library, the staff-room?

How often do you clean your laptop or computer keyboard? I bet it's not that frequently. You might wipe your screen with the odd screen wipe every now and then but actually cleaning the keyboard, come on admit, not that often.

With so many case studies under our belt, we thought we would share with you the top reasons why our customers decide upon self-service laptop/tablet loans.