In one case I emailed the publisher and he sent me new copies that were
bound better--it must have been a printing error.  At least letting the
publishers know means that future issues may be bound better.
In some cases I've trimmed the page and taped(archival)it in.

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Liz Lorbeer
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 10:10 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Mending closely bound journals - best practices

Dear Serialst,

I checked in the SERIALST archives and was unable to find any postings
- What I am looking for are ideas on how to mend closely bound
journals.  We have a few journals that were bound too close on the
left hand margin and we are unable to photocopy or tip-in loose and
missing pages.   We've decided for journals that have an electronic
counter part, which we have archival rights to the content, just to
place the bound volume back into our collection.  However for titles
that do not have an electronic counterpart, or we are lacking archival
rights, we'd like to be able to re-mend (possibly).

Has anyone mended a closely bound journal?  Or, what other strategies
worked or didn't work.  I'd appreciate any ideas you may have!

Thanks kindly,
Liz Lorbeer
Associate Director for Content Management
Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
University of Alabama Birmingham
lorbeer@uab.edu