Here at Pratt we've also kept the dust jackets on the books. They provide added information and are important for their design; additionally, they protect the books.
-Joy Kestenbaum
Pratt Institute
Art & Architecture Librarian
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:08:11 -0500 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> We keep them on the books.
> Mona Chapin
> Cincinnati Art Museum
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shannon Van Kirk [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 3:00 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [ARLIS-L] Book jacket collections?
>
>
> All,
> A colleague and I have been thinking about our growing digital
> collection
> of book jackets (we make them available to enhance our New Books list).
> As
> he said, "I hope I'm not opening a new line of attack for Nicholson
> Baker,
> but does anyone know of a library that systematically collects dust
> jackets
> and maintains the collection?"
>
> In my experience, most libraries seem to use them for projects or
> displays,
> or simply dispose of them. Certainly it would be a complex project to
> collect, preserve, catalog and index dust jackets, and any library's
> collection would be only a sampling of publishers' production.
>
> On the other hand, there are several collections, exhibition catalogs,
> and
> books devoted
> to individual collectors, designers, publishers, and genres (science
> fiction or romance jacket art, for example), and it looks (from WorldCat
> records) as though a few libraries have tried at one time or another to
> develop collections.
>
> As long as I'm posting this question to the list, I might as well try to
> turn it into a discussion. Should libraries try to collect dust jackets?
> Why? How? Has your library thought about/done this?
>
> Thanks for any leads and comments,
> --shannon
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