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Subject: Re: Spine formats for binding -- Ian Bogus
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:19:49 -0600
From: redhead <redhead@ksu.edu>

Ian,

I don't know about LC standards, but our local policy is to put the
enumeration below the call number for serials (not periodicals) and
monographs
and to put it in the midspine area for periodical volumes.

Mary Bailey
Serials Manager
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>Subject: Spine formats for binding
>Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:24:01 -0400
>From: Ian Bogus <imbogus@rci.rutgers.edu>
>
>
>Hello,
>
>    I was wondering if anyone has standards for the spine formats of
>classed journals to be bound.  We us the LC format for call numbers but
>we also include volume information (e.g. volume, number, yr....).  I
>have found one document that implies that all volume information should
>be placed in the call number as a cutter.  During binding we have always
>put some of this information in the middle of the spine, between the
>title and call number and some under the call number (as a cutter).  Is
>this out of the LC standards?  Should all the information be under the
>call number?
>
>Thank you,
>Ian Bogus

Mary Bailey
redhead@ksu.edu
Serials Manager
Kansas State University Libraries
Manhattan, KS 66506