I guess you'd have to define "labor intensive and costly". We laminate all our dust jackets and every time we look for ways to save money, we look at it, and find it would not save us enough money to make it worth while. Our student assistants do the laminating and taping on of the covers, so that undoubtably helps.
At ALA last year, there were a number of cover savers all claiming to be cheaper and faster.
Penny
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:47:19 -0400
From: Javad Maher <Javad.Maher_at_angelo.edu>
Subject: Dust jackets?
In our library book dust jackets are discarded. As you all know, these
jackets may contain valuable information about the authors or their works,
not yet available anywhere else. Since laminating dust jackets is labor
intensive and costly, is there an economical way to maintain the content?
Some libraries cut the needed section from the dust jacket and paste it
inside the cover, opposite the half-title.
Thanks.
Javad Maher
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Received on Mon Sep 25 2000 - 17:28:04 EDT