Dear Miss Miss Jean Shankle,

My name is Aileen Peltz and I work for St. John's University Library.
My supervisor forwarded your message to me as I am in charge of binding
for my department.

Our binding company is Bridgeport National Bindery, Inc. and we have
been with them for many years.

Titles are printed almost exclusively in horizontal format.  If our
binder feels it is not possible to do so, they make the adjustment on
their own.  Some of the titles were set for a vertical format from the
beginning.  We have the option to advise them to print the title only
horizontally, but truthfully they seem to be good judges of what is
best.  Yes, some titles have gone back and forth between vertical and
horizontal printing.  If I feel it should have been done in a horizontal
format and it is obvious it should have been do, I will request a
correction.

Hope this has been of some help.

Thank you,

Aileen Peltz

Library Technical Assistant

8000 Utopia Parkway

Queens, NY  11439

Phone:  718-990-6720

Fax:      718-990-5938

E-mail:  peltza@stjohns.edu

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Shankle, Jean
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:14 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Binding of Periodicals

For those of you who bind your periodicals, I have a few questions about
your lettering on the spines.

Do you typically have your titles printed on the spines of the bound
volumes horizontally or vertically?
Or does it just depend upon the binding company's thickness
requirements?

If you have a binding company go back and forth between vertical and
horizontal on different volumes of the same title, do you have them redo
the lettering?

I am basically wondering how common it is for binding companies to make
this type of error.

Thanks for your input.
Jean

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Miss Jean Shankle
Periodical Librarian
jshankle@pcci.edu
Pensacola Christian College Library
Box 18000
Pensacola, FL 32523
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