Dear colleagues,
My library would like to reconsider our acquisition and binding policies towards paperbacks. We currently purchase the hardcover if a title is available in both hardcover and paperback and we currently bind all paperbacks before they go to the stacks. I would like to hear what acquisitions and binding policies other libraries have towards paperbacks.
Does your library have a preference between hardcover and paperback for new acquisitions? If paperback is preferred, what is your binding policy towards paperbacks?
Does your library have a policy not binding paperbacks? Several years ago my library deferred paperback binding until the book was circulated once in order to cut binding cost. We resumed binding all paperbacks 2 years later. We now want to look into cutting binding cost again and wondering if we should consider defer paperback binding. Our circulation statistics showed about 50% of the paperbacks were circulated within 3 years of purchase so defer binding until first use may not save much in binding cost while additional cost is incurred for re-processing the same books.
Thank you in advance for sharing your experience and thoughts on this topic.
Ling-li
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Ling-li Chang
Head of Monograph Acquisitions & Cataloging Department
E.M. Cudahy Library
Loyola University Chicago
1032 W. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60660
Tel: (773) 508-2651
Fax: (773) 508-2993
Email: lchang_at_luc.edu
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Received on Thu Feb 17 2011 - 13:35:11 EST