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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:55:01 -0600
From: "Bolton, Karen" <bolton@MSOE.EDU>
Subject: Re: INFO (Maria Vittoria Delbarba)

Hello Maria,
Here at MSOE we do bind our periodicals, except those we receive in
microfiche later.  Our bindery, Houchen, is based in Nebraska.  We have used
their services for a little over a year and have been happy with them. Each
month, we prepare two or three boxes of thirty or so volumes, which they
pick up, and the next month they drop these off and pick up another shipment
we have ready for them.

We think we have less theft and vandalism of articles and issues when they
are bound. Also, I think they are preserved better that way.

We pay about 10 dollars per volume for binding. Soon, we will be sending our
Master's theses out to the same bindery at a slightly higher cost.

I do most of the bindery preparation myself, with a little help from
students. It is a little time consuming but not difficult.

I hope this helps.

Karen Bolton
Serials Librarian
bolton@msoe.edu

Milwaukee School of Engineering
Walter Schroeder Library
1025 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI
53202-3109

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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:55:05 +0100
From: Maria Vittoria Delbarba <delbarba@ING.UNIBS.IT>
Subject: INFO

Dear Serials Librarians,

please I need info about the serials binding in use in your Libraries.
Is it a habit to you to bind serials or not?
What about the charge of a volume?
Here, in my Library, some Professors define it a useless and a very
expensive procedure. Is it the same there?

Please let me know as soon as possible. Thank you very much for your
cooperation,

M. Vittoria Delbarba
(Librarian)
___________________________________________________________________________
DELBARBA Maria Vittoria                 Tel. +39-030-3715691
Biblioteca Facolta di Ingegneria        FAX  +39-030-3715587
Universita degli Studi                  mailto:delbarba@bsing.ing.unibs.it
Via Branze 38 - 25123 BRESCIA (Italy)   http://bsing.ing.unibs.it/~bazzoli/
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:03:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Deborah Harrell <dharrell@westga.edu>
Subject: Re: INFO (Maria Vittoria Delbarba)

We bind based primarily on use statistics.  As I don't personally handle
binding, I can't tell you how much a binding costs, but if a serial title
is used a lot, it is certainly a money-saver to bind rather than to
replace issues.  Binding also makes it much easier to maintain stacks.

Our professors sometimes complain about our buying microforms, but I don't
believe I have ever heard them complain about binding.  And I don't
believe we would give them the ability to make that decision for us.  But

Debbie Harrell
Ingram Library, State University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA 30118-2000
phone: 770-836-6498
fax: 770-836-6626

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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:11:34 -0500
From: Susan E. Sturgeon <ssturgeo@SALEMSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: INFO (Maria Vittoria Delbarba)

I believe that the binding of periodicals is more of a preservation
tool than anything else. Keeping unbound issues is a waste of time in my
opinion.  They get lost, take more time to reshelve and eventually get
destroyed from use.

SUSAN STURGEON
SERIALS DEPARTMENT
SALEM STATE COLLEGE LIBRARY
352 LAFAYETTE ST.
SALEM MA 01970
NEW E-mail address:susan.sturgeon@salem.mass.edu

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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:19:42 -0600
From: Shirley Williams <willias@SWOSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: INFO (Maria Vittoria Delbarba)

Yes, we do bind & it costs approximately $8 per volume .

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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:56:39 -0600
From: Karen Chobot <karen_chobot@NDSCS.NODAK.EDU>
Subject: Re: INFO (Maria Vittoria Delbarba)

Good morning Maria - here are my opinions for what they are worth.  I
hope they are useful to you.  I believe that if you wish to keep copies
of a journal for the long term, binding is useful and it is not really
all that expensive per volume.  If your journals are more popular, and
you do not wish to keep them for a long time, then binding is not
needed.  In our library we have about 800 titles, and I only bother to
bind about 50 of the titles.  These are journals we have decided we wish
to keep in the collection permanently.  The other titles we keep for
varying years, such as current 5 years, current 10 years, or whatever we
have decided is needed for that subject area.  I do not replace missing
issues if we do not bind the title.

I would recommend that if you are a research library, you would want to
keep many of your titles permanently.  If you are not a research library,
you might want to evaluate each title and decide if you wish to keep the
issues for a shorter period and therefore not go to the expense and
trouble of binding.

Good luck with your decisions making.  Karen.

Karen M. Chobot MLS
Mildred Johnson Library
NDSCS
800 N. 6th St.
Wahpeton ND 58076

701-671-2385
Karen_Chobot@ndscs.nodak.edu