SERVICES

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Selection for Binding

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LIBRARY BINDING

Each year, the MIT Libraries send approximately 20,000 items to be bound at our commercial library binder.

Each week, a shipment of between 300-500 items goes out to and returns from the commercial binder.

List of MIT Library books currently at the commercial bindery:

http://libstaff.mit.edu/colserv/bindery/acme.htm

Preservation Services guidelines for selection for binding:

http://libraries.mit.edu/preservation/acmedoc.html

Last updated June 5, 2008