In my univ. library it was for space-saving and cost-saving. The thickness
of book jackets (not to mention plastic covers) can reduce space available
on many shelves. Plastic covers obviously cost something and leaving
jackets without plastic covers would result in torn covers that would have
to be discarded eventually anyway.
Most removed jackets are sent to respective subject departments in the
library where they are often used for displays. Most jackets from art
books are then sent to the campus Art Dept. where students use them in a
wide variety of ways.
|((| Ellen Chapman
|))| University of Hawaii at Manoa Library
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Sheila A. Cork wrote:
> I think that this is an interesting discussion. I have an additional
> question - why are the covers taken off the books? Does anyone remember
> when that started to happen?
>
> Sheila A. Cork
> Librarian
> New Orleans Museum of Art
> City Park
> 1 Collins Diboll Circle
> P.O. Box 19123
> New Orleans, LA 70179-0123
>
> 504-658-4117
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> --- On Thu, 2/17/11, Anna Bigazzi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Anna Bigazzi <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [ARLIS-L] Fw: [ARLIS-L] Book Covers: To remove or not
> remove...
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011, 2:28 PM
>
> I sent this message to Jillian' e-mail address, but see that
> many respond on the list, so I am forwarding a copy of it in
> case someone else has interest...
> From: Anna Bigazzi
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:48 AM
> To: Jillian Kehoe
> Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Book Covers: To remove or not remove...
>
> Hi Jillian,
>
> In the past at our library we almost never kept the covers on the
> books. We did not have the funds to cover the expense for the plastic
> sheets and the manpower for the process. However, when we had a
> branch library at the Art School (we transferred to the expanded and
> "wired' main library in 1989)
> we had a big bulletin board in the reading area and pinned on it the
> new book covers in the neatest arrangements our art students may
> conceive. The covers would stay up there for a few weeks, then after
> we substituted them, the most interesting or beautiful ones would be
> mounted on boards and go to enrich our circulating collection of "Art
> Plates."
>
> After the move we lost the exhibition board, so the better covers
> still were used for plates and the others discarded or used as folders
> or colored paper for book repairs. This went on for another 15 years
> or so until the book collection was integrated and the Art Librarian
> (=me) was "integrated" too as Reference Librarian. Right now the
> Plate Collection still exist, but is not updated for lack of time and
> manpower. I still collect gorgeous covers
> which most likely will end at the Art School for the students to
> adopt. In the meantime we updated the "New Books" shelves leaving the
> covers on as long as the display lasts, and created a circulating
> "Leisure Collection" of literature, where the covers stay on without
> protection as long as they are decent. Art books do not often park
> among the "New Books" because of their size. Also if requested by
> faculty they go to the stacks immediately after cataloging. We have a
> special section of the online catalog to signal the accession of new
> books. I am not so sure that anybody looks at it...
>
> Thanks for asking...
>
> Anna Bigazzi
> Art Reference Librarian
> Mortensen Library, Art Library
> University of Hartford
> 200 Bloomfield Avenue
> West Hartford, CT 06117
>
> Tel.: 860 768-4397
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> From: Jillian Kehoe
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:26 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [ARLIS-L] Book Covers: To remove or not remove...
>
> Hello ARLIS
>
>
>
> I’m curious to see what others schools do concerning book covers.
> Currently, we are putting plastic on the covers, covering our new
> books and putting them on display. After a few months, they get
> removed from display and placed into the stacks. We haven’t been
> removing the covers. What is your practice concerning book covers—do
> the covers get removed when the books get placed in standard shelving?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help and opinions.
>
>
>
> Jillian Kehoe
>
> Librarian
>
> Art & Architecture Library
>
> New York Institute of Technology
>
> Old Westbury, NY 11568
>
> (516) 686-1269
>
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> Anna Bigazzi
> Art Reference Librarian
> Mortensen Library, Art Library
> University of Hartford
> 200 Bloomfield Avenue
> West Hartford, CT 06117
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> Tel.: 860 768-4397
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