CDL-E-Book Searching Before Book Repair

From:
"Davis, Sue" <susan.w.davis_at_Vanderbilt.Edu>

All,

For those of you with book repair programs, how much bibliographic 
searching (OCLC, HathiTrust, your e-book collections, etc.) do you do 
before repairing circulating collection materials?  When so many items 
are now available in e-book form, do you withdraw the physical volume, 
especially those in poor and/or brittle condition, and provide a link to 
an available e-copy instead?

And, if you do this kind of preliminary bibliographic searching, who in 
your organization does that?  Inside the repair dept. or elsewhere?

Thanks for any program specifics you can provide.

_______________________

Sue Davis

Preservation Librarian

Vanderbilt University Library

419 21st. Ave. South

Nashville, TN 37203-2427