Steven,
We embossed the title page and another page in the middle of the book for
everything for decades until about 10 years ago when we decided it was
unnecessary extra work that didn't really provide any additional protection
against loss and that could do actual or potential damage to a book,
particularly a relatively fragile one. I think it is safe to say that in
my 20 years here we have never identified or recovered a lost book based on
the fact that it had been embossed.
Mike
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Michael Persick | Head of Acquisitions & Serials
Haverford College Library | 370 Lancaster Ave., Haverford, PA 19041
(610) 896-2971 | fax: (610) 896-1102 | mpersick_at_haverford.edu
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:00 PM, <acqnet-l-request_at_lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:30:27 -0700
> Subject: [ACQNET-L] embosser
> A couple of questions for you:
>
> *Does your library emboss new books? We stamp the top edge, but also
> emboss a couple of pages in each book. Just wondering how common this is.
> *Do you have your vendor emboss books that are shelf-ready processed? YBP
> has been doing this for us, but they would like to stop (and to use a stamp
> instead).
>
> Wondering how much I want to stick to my guns or if I should just abandon
> embossing altogether.
>
>
>
> Steven R. Harris
> Director of Collections & Acquisitions
> Services &
> Subject Librarian for English
> University of New Mexico Libraries
> 505.277.2586
>
>
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