2 messages:

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Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 08:57:24 -0500
From: Mary Wilke <wilke@CRLMAIL.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Binding without an automated system (Mark Hemhauser)

I used to be the bindery person at a library when check in was still
manual.  How we handled it was that the check in person would give me the
first issue of every volume after they checked in the issue.  Since at that
time that library used to shelf current loose issues in a different place
then their bound issues, I would put the first issues in alpha order and go
out to the current serials stacks and pull the issues.  Yes, of course that
meant some titles really were not ready for binding, if they were skinny
enough that we bound 2 volumes in 1.   Your library could not have always
had an integrated library system to generate binding slips (unless your
library came into existence relatively recently).  How did they handle it
before getting Innovative?  Hopefully someone is still there from those days.

Forgot to add that why that library choose the first issue of the next
volume to trigger the binding of the preceding volume was so students could
have available a current issue while the preceding volume was at the
bindery.  The bindery used came only once a month.

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Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 09:00:13 -0700
From: Carol Morse <MorsCa@WWC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Binding without an automated system (Freya Anderson) -Reply

We do something similar, but we tag the title to be pulled when the 1st
issue of the next binding increment comes, because we don't like to take
something off the current shelf display.

Carol Morse

in response to Freya Anderson:

Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 12:37:23 -0800
From: Freya Anderson <anfna@UAA.ALASKA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Binding without an automated system (Mark Hemhauser)

Mark-
We don't have any automated system for serials.  Currently, we are only
allowed to send a couple of times a year, so it's a big project.  However,
before I started working here, we used to send a shipment off every
week or two.  When they checked in the last issue of a volume (what would be
a bound volume, not necessarily by the numbers on the issues) it would go
on a binding shelf.  Then, once a week the binding person would take those
single issues out to the shelves and pull the remainder of the volumes.
As I said, I wasn't here then, but my supervisor speeks longingly of the
days when it was so simple and easy.  I hope this helps.

Freya Anderson                          anfna@uaa.alaska.edu
Serials Clerk                           phone:(907)786-4627
University of Alaska Anchorage          fax:  (907)786-6050
Consortium Library

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