Here at Lister Hill Library, we have just begun to bind our
incompletes.  We decided to do the following:

We are binding incompletes when only one issue from that range of
issues is missing.

Label the outside as a complete vol. but include the term
"INCOMPLETE" below the enumeration on the spine for that volume.

On the inside of the volume we insert a page at the start of the
volume indicating whichever issue is missing.  We duplicate that page
and insert it also where the missing issue would have been.

The insert pages are in a large type font so they will be noticed fairly
quickly.  We have not been doing this long enough to evaluate its
effectiveness.

Our spine might read:

 AARCTIMES

        8

    1984

INCOMPLETE

The inside pages would say:

AARCTIMES

VOL. 8 N. 1-12  (1984)

VOL. 8 N. 3 (1984)
  IS MISSING.

We place a note on our title record to display in the system
(Horizon) that the specific vol. is bound incomplete.
We are also keeping a file indentifying  these titles in case we are
able to replace the issue and re-bind the vol. as complete.
Are other libraries handling their incompletes in a similar fashion?

Jay

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Jay Harris, Head of Collection Development
Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
1700 University Boulevard
Birmingham, AL 35294-0013
Voice 205-934-2460/ FAX 205-934-3545
email:  jharris@lister2.lhl.uab.edu
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