Sorry, Deborah,
My message ran away from me last night before I signed it and checked the
destination.
I realize that this is a subject interesting for several institutions, so I
run it again through ARLIS-L..
>We find a use for a good many of the book jackets (I am speaking of art
>books, of course.)
>Most of the times we do not keep them on the books when we process them,
>unless they protect a particularly flimsy, delicate or totally naked cover.
>If they have good art reproductions they are mounted on 10x14" board,
>labeled with all pertinent information, cataloged, bar coded and filed in
>cabinets for art students and teachers to borrow for classes and projects
>of many kinds. Details are matched if possible with
>reproductions of the entire piece, small ones may be combined with other
>ones by the same artists or style, etc. We use other materials
>for the same project of course (magazines, flyers, postcards,
>calendars,etc.), but often the book jackets offer the best reproductions
>and the patrons do not mind the occasional printed words. We have
>presently about 18,000 cataloged boards, which we call "plates" They
>often offer pictures that are not even found in the books they use to protect.
>If they are not suitable for mounting they might be good candidates for
>book mending when we need pieces of paper to match the color of
>a damaged cover. Stiff ones can be used for new spines. Some end up
>providing backing for big pictures to be mounted as fold-out plates.
>Colorful ones or duplicates that we cannot use are dumped in a "free" box
>that we keep supplied for the art students. They are used for copying,
>collages, graphic design projects.
>Crummy ones are going in the trash, of course... They get recycled too!
Anna Bigazzi
Art Coordinator
Mortensen Library, Art Library
University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford.CT 06117
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>At 03:52 PM 1/21/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>I am collecting information about what art libraries do with book jackets.
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>>Do you through them away?
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>>Do you catalog them separately and house them in flat files?
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>>Do you keep them on the books and cover them with mylar?
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>>Do you keep them on the books in certain circumstances such as when the
>>content of the book jacket is not represented within the book?
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>>I would appreciate any and all responses and thank you for your time and
>>help.
>>
>>Best to you,
>>
>>Deborah Perotti
>>Library Preservation Coordinator
>>The Museum of Modern Art
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>>ph. 212 708-9438
>>fax 212 408-6385
>>HTTP://www.moma.org
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