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Date:         Tue, 2 Dec 1997 08:13:00 GMT-5
From:         "Kimberly J. Laird" <LAIRDK@MEDSERV.ETSU-TN.EDU>
Organization: ETSU Libraries
Subject:      Re: binding medical titles

Hi Allen..

What our bindery company told us to do is to ask that the pages
be tipped in & the spine reinforced. This avoids having to
rebind the entire volume & costs us far less. Of course, if
you're missing more than ten pages or more than ten conseq.
pages have fallen out, then you're out of luck. But for us,
there's usually only 2-7 pages that're falling out.

We're finding that volumes 2-3 years old are the ones
experiencing the most problems. I'm hoping that next year will
see a change & we won't start seeing 1995s coming through too.
What I wondered is whether a sewn binding would hold together
better than this glue and whether we have insects eating the
glue. We find earwigs and some other kinds of insects including
enormous beetles in the serials section all the time.

But at least we don't have mold growing in our CD-ROMS the way a
poster from South American once mentioned....

Kim Laird
Technical Services Librarian
Medical Library, Quillen College of Medicine
East Tennessee State University,

 lairdk@etsu.edu or lairdk@etsu-tn.edu

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Date:         Tue, 2 Dec 1997 10:53:40 -0500
From:         "Susan E. Sturgeon" <ssturgeo@SALEM.MASS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Binding Medical Titles

In my opinion, but from many years of experience, Ridley's Bindery in
upstate New York is the best in the business.  One must be located in
their service area, however, and I can't tell where you are.

SUSAN STURGEON
SERIALS DEPARTMENT
SALEM STATE COLLEGE LIBRARY
352 LAFAYETTE ST.
SALEM MA 01970
NEW E-mail address:susan.sturgeon@salem.mass.edu

On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Allen Williams wrote:

> I'm not sure if this problem has been addressed recently, please forgive
> me if it has.  I would like to hear from medical libraries on how their
> journals are being professionally bound and if you are having problems
> with pages falling out.
>
> We are experiencing problems with the majority of our bound medical
> journals.  Due to the glossy pages and heavy use by patrons, many of the
> pages are slipping out of the professional binds.  Some volumes have been
> rebound to the point that the margins cannot be reduced any further.  Our
> current bindery does not notch the spines before binding which we have
> heard would help this problem considerably.  We have been told that
> they're working on finding a new glue, but in the meantime our expensive
> journals are becoming rather ragged.
>
> Do you have suggestions on other bindery practices to try or on specific
> binderies that you would recommend for this type of problem?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help --
>
>
>         Allen Williams
>         Periodicals Specialist
>         Grand Valley State University
>         email: williama@gvsu.edu