v----------1 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:54:49 -0500 From: "Fallon, Judith L." <jf@WPI.EDU> Subject: binding Our library boxes the unbound issues. We keep the current year in the current periodical area of the library. The previous year(s) are kept on another floor. The individual issues are not bar-coded. They are checked in and show up in the catalogue if someone looks for the holdings. Judith Fallon 508-831-5413 Gordon Library WPI 100 Institute Road Worcester, MA 01609 If you can't say something nice, don't say nothin' at all" - Thumper ----------2 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:20:13 -0800 From: Carol Morse <MorsCa@wwc.edu> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Binding We box a lot of our titles in shelf files. For about 100 titles, we keep the last 5 years and replace them with microfiche. Carol Morse >>> bholley@BAMA.UA.EDU 11/14/03 10:06AM >>> We recently experienced a 75% cut in our binding budget. What creative solutions have others implemented when faced with this problem? If you stopped binding journals to which you have electronic access, how did you handle the storage of the single issues? Did you barcode and link each issue? Has anyone used shrinkwrap as an alternative? Thanks for you help. _________________________________________________ Beth Holley Head, Acquisitions Dept. University of Alabama Libraries P.O. Box 870266 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0266 Phone: 205-348-1493 FAX: 205-348-6358 ----------3 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:43:27 -0600 From: "Mays, Allison" <maysap@millsaps.edu> Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Binding We're not binding nearly as much either, we've just cut back in general. I'm not doing anything, just leaving them on the shelves in boxes, Princeton files, whatever I have as I can't afford to buy anything. We just cancelled the print copies of Am. Chemical Soc. titles and are going with the electronic; that alone will save us a bundle because those are so voluminous. We're not barcoding or security stripping the loose issues. My next move will be to stop binding any titles that are in JSTOR. Allison P. Mays Acquisitions Librarian Millsaps College 1701 N. State Street Jackson, MS 39210 601-974-1083 maysap@millsaps.edu ----------4 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:57:44 -0600 From: Susan Andrews <Susan_Andrews@tamu-commerce.edu> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Binding We have not cut that budget quite so severely, but we have been eating away at that budget. The first thing that I have been doing is to look at what I am binding. Could some titles be bound less frequently (2 vols. together, instead of 1, 6 months together instead of 3 or 4, etc.) This has suprisingly cut back on a fair amount of binding. I did it gradually, so that I wouldn't have everything needing to be bound at the same time, but it was definitely a cost saver. We haven't actually stopped binding electronic access journals, although it is under discussion for future rounds of cuts, specifically focused on JSTOR. Since we remotely store the volumes of JSTOR's coverage for many of our JSTOR titles, when JSTOR's coverage includes our unbound issues, they will be sent to a somewhat more secure area, with fewer worries of loss and destruction. I would be interested to hear what others may have done. Hope this helps somewhat. Susan Andrews Susan Andrews Head, Serials Librarian Texas A&M University-Commerce P.O. Box 3011 Commerce, TX 75429-3011 Susan_Andrews@tamu-commerce.edu (903)886-5733 "Your Success Is Our Business" ----------t Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:11:29 -0600 From: John Lucas <jlucas@rowland.umsmed.edu> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Binding Beth and all: First off, we had to cut about 110 titles from our collection due to the budget. (so what's new on that). Saves a little. We are trying to use common sense when binding. Second. We are examining EVERY TITLE before it goes to binding, to see if we can combine 2 volumes of quarterly's or bimonthly's and even binding 4 months of a 1 volume year instead of 3 months. (However watch the thickness & THE WEIGHT ! ! Some of those Elsevier, and other big titles that use the clay coated pager are ALOT heavier, and so we reduce the number of issues, so holding for copying etc is easier. Then again, the publisher changes the thickness of the issues (if controlled) and if not, then we just have to play by ear. In this case, we try to keep until we have 1/2 year or until the volume is complete, then try to divide equally. Something we have NOT YET LOOKED AT is for the large # of pages per volume titles like PNAS, the Amer. Soc. Microbiology titles, etc. is to consider SPLITTING ISSUES in order to get a more uniform bound volume and list on the spine the page numbers included instead of months or issue #'s That's my 2 mils worth. John Lucas Serials Librarian University of Mississippi Medical Center 2500 North State St Jackson, MS 39216-4505 (PH) (601) 984-1277 (FAX) ( 601) 984-1262 JLUCAS@ROWLAND.UMSMED.EDU ----------6 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:05:34 -0500 From: vtaffurelli <vtaffurelli@nypl.org> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Binding Beth, If you receive any off-list responses, please share them or at least summarize them for the list. This is apparently a hot topic right now. At NYPL, we also had a severe cut in our binding budget (more than 50%). At the same time we cancelled over 80% of our microfilm. As a research library, we cannot discard any accessioned materials unless they are replaced by commercially produced microfilm. The Trustees have approved a list of more than 800 titles for disposal, but now that the film has been cancelled, we cannot discard them. For titles which are available electronically in any of our full text databases, we will not bind. We will only keep one full year and current (except for JSTOR which will be kept for 5 years) then bundle the loose issues and send them to our new state-of-the-art off-site storage facility. We are currently in the process of developing procedures and guidelines for bundling and item record codes for these materials. We would be very interested in knowing what other libraries are doing. Virginia Taffurelli Head of Technical Processing Science, Industry and Business Library The New York Public Library 188 Madison Avenue New York NY 10016-4314 Phone: (212) 592-7234 FAX: (212) 592-7233 email: vtaffurelli@nyplDate: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:13:14 -0500
