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At the Philadelphia Museum of Art Library we have only recently begun to keep book covers.  We only save dust jackets of books that are related to our institution: exhibition catalogs, PMA publications, and covers that illustrate works of art in our collection.  The covers are retained on non-circulating copies of books (additional copies in the circulating collection do not retain their dust jackets).  We double bar-code on both the book and the plastic.  The covers that are not used are given to the Education Department to be used in art education projects.

Linda Martin-Schaff

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.