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CRITERIA FOR SELECTING PAPERBACK ITEMS FOR COMMERCIAL BINDING
Look for:
- Instructions on "Attention" slip
- Instructions on Arrival Slip
- Items with accompanying materials
- Items needing tip-ins and/or repair
- Items which are old and/or brittle
- Loose-leaf notebooks
Select:
- “Bind” instruction on the Attention or Arrival slip
- Adhesive bound paperbacks
- Large or heavy sewn paperbacks
- Loose pages or staple bound sheets
- Three ring binders and spiral bound volumes
Do not select :
- “Do not bind” instruction on the Attention or Arrival slip
- Conference proceedings, workshops, etc.
- Items that are part of a series (e.g. no.572)
- Volumes in a set (e.g. v.3)
- RUSH (unless requested)
- Physics Reading Room
- Humanities (unless requested)
- Rotch (unless requested)
- Aga Khan material (unless requested)
- Items for storage (unless in tough shape)
- Foreign languages
- Adhesive bound books with photos that bleed into inner margins – especially watch for Rotch books with this characteristic
- Copy cover cannot be larger than 10.25” x 7.5” x 1.25”
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