Hi:
We keep the book jackets on our books, but we don't cover them in plastic. Both the book and the cover get a spine label and a barcode, and we toss the jacket when it gets done in, but the book is still labeled. The barcodes we use are a two-part barcode label; it looks like one barcode on the sheet, but it's split in two, and the upper part goes on the book, and the lower part goes on the jacket.
At the last library I worked at we put the jackets on display, but we don't have space to do that here.
Karen DeWitt, Director
Harrye B. Lyons Design Library
NCSU Libraries
Campus Box 7701
Raleigh, NC 27695-7701
919-513-3860
>>> Linda Heslin <[log in to unmask]> 9/2/2009 12:08 PM >>>
We have recently had a discussion here about the use of book covers in the library. I would be interested in knowing if you use and how you use book jackets-i.e., if you use them for display of new art and architecture books, do you retain covers on when placed back into the stacks as part of the regular collection? Do you also cover with plastic book wrap? Trying to decide where best to put barcodes.
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