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Date:         Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:08:37 -0400
From:         "Geraldine H. Wescott" <wescott@LYCO.LYCOMING.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Rebinding journals when complete

Anne

What we do is home-bind the issues of an incomplete volume. We have a
Bro-Dart machine that uses plastic pins in holes we've drilled.
Commercially binding incomplete vols and rebinding seems an expensive way
to go.

Like you, if we didn't bind in some way,  we would loose even more issues
while waiting for the missing ones.

Gerre
 <wescott@LYCO.LYCOMING.EDU>

On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Anne Frohlich wrote:

> At McNeese State University we have been binding periodicals incomplete in
> order to keep from losing more issues while we wait for replacements.  When
> we get the issues to complete the volume, we have then rebound it.  We
> cannot afford microfilm.  We do not put unbound volumes in boxes on the
> bound volumes shelves.
>
> Some people on staff are objecting to our binding and then rebinding.  Do
> any other libraries bind and then rebind when complete?  What do you think
> of this or what are your solutions?  ...

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Date:         Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:02:15 -0500
From:         Judi Shaffer <shafferj@EMAIL.UAH.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Rebinding journals when complete

We only bind as incomplete after an exhaustive check of sources for the
missing issues.  After we give up on being able to locate a replacement,
we bind as incomplete.  Rarely if ever do we rebind - only once in my
tenure and that was because someone donated some journals which included
some that filled in two different "incomplete volumes."  Those we did rebind.

Judi Shaffer
Head of Serials and Document Delivery
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, Alabama
        shafferj@email.uah.edu