Re: Binding Medical Titles (2 messages) Birdie MacLennan 02 Dec 1997 16:30 UTC
2 messages, 80 lines: (1)-------------------------- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 08:13:00 GMT-5 From: "Kimberly J. Laird" <LAIRDK@MEDSERV.ETSU-TN.EDU> Organization: ETSU Libraries Subject: Re: binding medical titles Hi Allen.. What our bindery company told us to do is to ask that the pages be tipped in & the spine reinforced. This avoids having to rebind the entire volume & costs us far less. Of course, if you're missing more than ten pages or more than ten conseq. pages have fallen out, then you're out of luck. But for us, there's usually only 2-7 pages that're falling out. We're finding that volumes 2-3 years old are the ones experiencing the most problems. I'm hoping that next year will see a change & we won't start seeing 1995s coming through too. What I wondered is whether a sewn binding would hold together better than this glue and whether we have insects eating the glue. We find earwigs and some other kinds of insects including enormous beetles in the serials section all the time. But at least we don't have mold growing in our CD-ROMS the way a poster from South American once mentioned.... Kim Laird Technical Services Librarian Medical Library, Quillen College of Medicine East Tennessee State University, lairdk@etsu.edu or lairdk@etsu-tn.edu (2)------------------------- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 10:53:40 -0500 From: "Susan E. Sturgeon" <ssturgeo@SALEM.MASS.EDU> Subject: Re: Binding Medical Titles In my opinion, but from many years of experience, Ridley's Bindery in upstate New York is the best in the business. One must be located in their service area, however, and I can't tell where you are. SUSAN STURGEON SERIALS DEPARTMENT SALEM STATE COLLEGE LIBRARY 352 LAFAYETTE ST. SALEM MA 01970 NEW E-mail address:susan.sturgeon@salem.mass.edu On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Allen Williams wrote: > I'm not sure if this problem has been addressed recently, please forgive > me if it has. I would like to hear from medical libraries on how their > journals are being professionally bound and if you are having problems > with pages falling out. > > We are experiencing problems with the majority of our bound medical > journals. Due to the glossy pages and heavy use by patrons, many of the > pages are slipping out of the professional binds. Some volumes have been > rebound to the point that the margins cannot be reduced any further. Our > current bindery does not notch the spines before binding which we have > heard would help this problem considerably. We have been told that > they're working on finding a new glue, but in the meantime our expensive > journals are becoming rather ragged. > > Do you have suggestions on other bindery practices to try or on specific > binderies that you would recommend for this type of problem? > > Thanks in advance for your help -- > > > Allen Williams > Periodicals Specialist > Grand Valley State University > email: williama@gvsu.edu