-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Spine formats for binding -- Mary Bailey
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:17:26 -0500
From: Helen Aiello <haiello@wesleyan.edu>

Dear Ian,

Guess this depends on what your binder can provide and your overall
workflow.  At one time, we included the 'variable ' information in the
mid
spine area.  In addition, the same variable information would be
repeated
below the call number (we use LC as well).  During this time of
duplication, call number labels were created and affixed in-house.
Then came a reduction in our staffing levels.  When this happened, we
examined this duplication of effort (of midspine and  below the call no.
labeling) and reconsidered what we were doing.  We had our commercial
binder affix the call no. to the spine for a specified fee per volume
and
had the variable included in ONLY the mid-spine area.
Although our binder could have recreated the variable in the call no.
area,
as we had once done in house, it was not considered good practice since
there was too much room for error in creating all this original data for
each volume each and every time we sent a title out to the bindery.
In addition, it helped in our own in-house quality control since once a
title had its call number  embedded in the data for that title, we had
need
to check it only the first time it went out since that data never
changed.
So.....this may not answer what is considered 'standard' practice but it
sure gets the work done faster and with less margin for error.

PS: For in--house labeling (as we tend to do with 'serials' since these
types of volumes are generally not in need of commercial binding since
they
come to us prebound) we include the variable below the call
number...again
not so much because because of 'standard' but due to expediency: the
call
no. configures from our records in the ILS and our student lablers
follow
exactly what the system tells them to do.

At 02:42 PM 12/6/01 -0500, you wrote:
>-------- Original Message --------
>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
>Kansas State University Libraries>===== Original Message From "SERIALST:
>Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum" <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU> =====
> >-------- Original Message --------
> >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

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