At Duke, we chose a paperback preferred and use a bind based on condition policy to curtail the cost of binding. In addition to this strategy, we also discontinued routine binding of materials sent to our off-site storage facility. This change includes monographs, serials, as well as its subpart, periodicals. Since many serials and periodicals are available electronically--the reason we send these resources directly to off-site storage after processing--the requests for the print version of these resources are rare. When such requests do occur, staff at our off-site facility scan the desired article and send it to the patron electronically.
Hope this helps.
Ros Raeford
ros.raeford_at_duke.edu
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Since we have an excellent local bookbinder who gives us a good price on our binding needs, our preference has been to choose the paperback if the hardbound is more than twice the price. Additionally, in the past five years or so we have even preferred used books in really good condition to cut costs further. Books are only sent to the bindery when they are damaged enough to interfere with their use.
Angela Masden
Acquisitions Specialist
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Regent University Library
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Virginia Beach VA 23464 757-352-4179 (fax)
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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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