It may be time to do an in depth evaluation of your periodical collection and the use it is getting. Is there enough use of your bound periodicals to continue binding rather than recycling?  We found that our students and faculty rarely used most of our periodicals once we bound them and moved them to the 3rd floor. They got no use at all if there was an electronic alternative. We stopped professionally binding most of our titles and started using cardboard ‘binding’ boxes for the titles we continued to bind. Most of our titles we keep only current year on the shelf and then recycle. 

Hope this helps,

LeAnne Rumler

Technical Services Librarian

Mossey Library

Hillsdale College



 

 

 

Good morning,

 This is regarding the binding process. 2018 and 2019 titles are still unbound in  our library. Therefore we are facing two controversial issues.

 

a-Binding the issues  will produce a budget problem .

 

b-Not binding the 2018 and 2019 issues and relying on economical  plastic  bags (For a package of 100 bags( size A4) the price will be $12;For a package of 100 bags( size A3) the price will be $15)  .

do you think that plastic bags are a good solution ?

Thank you for your help.

Regards,

 

 

 

Rola Hajj Senior Serials & Electronic Resources Manager Library - Collection Management Division Office: +961 1 786456 ext. 2276

 

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