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BINDERY PROCEDURES

 

Overview of Practice

1. Pull issues in assigned range.  Limited retention titles and “Don’t bind titles (yellow dot)) will need boxes made for them.

2.  Check binding instructions & enter “At bindery” date in grid. 

3.  Type volume and date information on pre-printed bindery tickets, or all title volume and date info on a blank ticket; trim, stamp same date on pink copies, and file in green box;
send white & yellow ones to bindery with rubber-banded or string-tied issues.

4.  Prepare index pages and “sheets” for inclusion with issues to be sent to bindery; “string vs. rubber bands”

5.  Pack shipment in boxes according to size, not title.

6.  Receipt of bound volumes: unpacking, proofreading spines, & pre-shelf processing

7.  Enter “Bound” date in grid for volumes received from bindery.

 

Pulling Periodical Issues

1.  Make sure all issues are available, if not, make a box and print a small M on the bottom right corner of the label; check Ref. for buying guides and directories, if noted in binding instructions.

2.  Arrange in pile, earliest on top, most recent on bottom.

3.  Record spine label wording from previously-bound volumes, separating words by line with a diagonal ( / ); “and”, “the”, “of the” should be written in smaller caps to distinguish them from major words in the title.  The library’s name is in small caps at the bottom of the spine.

 

 (Use // for 2 vertical spaces between corporate/geographic entity and title.)

 

Sample with single vertical spaces between words within title:

                 on post-it                                                            on spine

 

              A/W/AND/S/T                                                    AVIATION                                             

                     143                                                           WEEK AND                                              

               Sept.-Dec.                                                          SPACE

                    1995                                                          TECHNOLOGY

 

                                                                                    [2 vertical spaces]

                                                                                    143

                                                                                    [1 vertical space]

                                                                                          SEPT.-DEC.

                                                                                         [1 vertical space]                                                                                  

                                                                                               1995

                                                                                    [several vertical spaces]

                                                                                                                          STANFORD                                                     

                                                                                                                          BUSINESS

                                                                                                                           LIBRARY

   

4.  Rubber-band issues together, and stick post-it on top; check previously-bound volumes for indexes, supplements, and other binding ‘patterns’, making notes on post-it, to check in CARL [> Endeavor] later.
                

Note: LC-classified serials and monographs require most of the same spine-imprint labeling procedures as for periodicals, except for the addition of the author’s name and the call number; these will be described later.

 

Check binding instructions and enter “At bindery” date

1.  In Serials mode, after selecting menu item 3 (Detailed holdings) from the first menu, and the periodical title to be bound, check menu item 4 for binding instructions before entering the “At bindery” date.  This screen has the publication frequency, as well as when to bind the issue, based on when all issues to be bound should be available.  It also indicates whether supplements are bound with the title, where to find special issues (often on Reference), and when they’re available.  Buying guides, if published as regular issues-if not classified-are bound with regular issues, so the 1999 volume can’t be bound until the June or December issue for 2000 is received and placed on Reference, for example.  Also, binding instructions usually indicate whether the title has an index, and where to find it. 

2.  When 5-6 titles/volumes’-worth are pulled, enter “At bindery” date, using ‘macro’ (e.g. A  001117) in far-right column of grid for issues of each title volume to be bound. 

     

 

 

 

 

Write “in CARL” [> Endeavor] & data-entry date on post-it.

          *******  SERIALS LEVEL 4 HOLDINGS  *******                           

TITLE:        | Aviation week & space technology                   |           

CONTINUES:    | International product news                         |           

CONTINUED BY: | Aviation week & space technology.  B               |           

DATE: | 110900 |                   FRQ: | W |     REG: | R |                   

BRA: | PER    |  LOC: | PER    | COPY # | 000001 | CTRL | 0000046913 |         

CALL# |                                      |     ISSN | 0005-2175 |          

                                                                               

  Date     1       2       3       4      S  Date   Action                     

| 000103 | v |   152 | n |     1 |   |       |   |       || A  | 001117  |    |

| 000110 | v |   152 | n |     2 |   |       |   |       || I  | 000110  |    |

| 000117 | v |   152 | n |     3 |   |       |   |       || I  | 000121  |    |

| 000124 | v |   152 | n |     4 |   |       |   |       || I  | 000202  |    |

| 000131 | v |   152 | n |     5 |   |       |   |       || I  | 000202  |    |

| 000207 | v |   152 | n |     6 |   |       |   |       || I  | 000208  |    |

| 000214 | v |   152 | n |     7 |   |       |   |       || I  | 000216  |    |

| 000221 | v |   152 | n |     8 |   |       |   |       || I  | 000222  |    |

| 000228 | v |   152 | n |     9 |   |       |   |       || I  | 000228  |    |

| 000306 | v |   152 | n |    10 |   |       |   |      || I  | 000308  |    |

| 000313 | v |   152 | n |    11 |   |       |   |      || I  | 000315  |    |

| 000320 | v |   152 | n |    12 |   |       |   |      || I  | 000329  |  > |

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 F1=RECOVER, F2=NEXT, F3=PREVIOUS, F4=NEW ISSUES, F5-16 TO RETURN              

Above is a sample of a grid with “A” date entered for 1st issue.

 

Typing bindery tickets

1.  Find pre-printed bindery tickets for each physical volume to be bound, and type  volume &/or issue number, months (as necessary) and year on each ticket next to [V], NO.*, [M] and [Y]  (*Number is never bracketed, i.e. “[N]”, but is always written as NO.[sp]##, never “No.” or “no.”)
2.  Imprint ink color & cover-material color are in boxes at right of spine information column on pre-printed tickets; “Stanford Business Library” is also pre-printed in small letters at the bottom of the spine info column.  (See copy of pre-printed bindery ticket on next page, followed by copy of blank ticket.)

3.  If a ticket has a labeled space for information that is not applicable (e.g. 1 full-year volume is being bound instead of 2 for Jan.-June & July-Dec.), draw a line through the [M] in red ink after the other entries are typed.  If slight typing errors are made, correct them and complete info on top (white) copy.  After removing perforation strip at left, correct errors by hand on yellow and pink copies, though any additional instructions in the box at bottom left don’t need to be fixed on the pink copy, since that portion won’t be kept.

4.  If there is no ticket for a title you are binding [supply used up, or title changed], a blank ticket must be typed; this is where correct vertical spacing on the post-it matters.  Type the title in single-spaced caps, then the volume 2 vertical spaces below title, then No. or months, & year with a single vertical space between them.  (If there is an organization name preceding the title, such as a journal-publishing society or bank, the // on the post-it indicates 2 vertical spaces separating them.  The same spacing applies if a geographic distinction follows a common title, or a place and a date-typed in small caps, within parentheses-distinguish publication of the same title by different organizations (or a name change of the same organization).  If there is no ticket because of a title change, type in the lower left box: “PLEASE ADD THIS TITLE TO YOUR DATABASE”; if binding the last volume of a title prior to a known name change, type “PLEASE REMOVE THIS TITLE FROM YOUR DATABASE” in the same box.

5.  When all tickets are typed, and pink copies separated from the white & yellow ones, tuck the latter in the top issue of the volume to be bound.  Put all the pink copies in alphabetical order by title, and trim off the left and right sides of the forms at the dashed line guides; cut between the slot-number column and the title & volume column on the left, and to the right of the imprint and material color boxes on the right.  (See copy of bindery ticket on next page for cutting guides.)

Stamp each pink copy of the bindery ticket with the “A” date stamp, the same date which was entered in the grid in B.1; file the pink copies in the green box with others for the same shipment date. 

  

Typing blank bindery tickets for classified serials and monographs

1.  Author’s last name only is printed at the top of the spine in caps & lowercase letters, followed by 1 vertical space, then the title,  all in caps.  If it is a long title, or has many long words, remove the ticket after typing the author’s name and put the ticket in the typewriter sideways, so that “TITLE” is on the left side, and type along the length of the middle column. 

2.  No matter which orientation is used for the title, be sure to allow space for the call number and STANFORD BUSINESS LIBRARY vertically on 3 lines, in lower-case letters-to represent small caps-near the bottom of the spine.

3.  If the book is new (not a re-bind of a book that can’t be mended), be sure to write the fund plate name on the pink slip before filing it.  Otherwise, it’s hard to trace which plate to use when the book comes back from the bindery.  A few classified titles are always bound on receipt from the vendor, due to expected heavy use:

 
          Nelson’s directory of investment research (HG4509.N44a) REF.: TABLE A-1,

          Nelson’s directory of investment managers (HG4509.N45)

                                       REF.: A.S.S.:SECURITIES INDUSTRY

          Security risk evaluation (aka “Beta book”) HG4661.S44 (PERM. RESERVE)
          (These are just a few examples.)

  

 

4.  “Rush” books are classified serials or monographs which should receive the same bindery preparation as for “bind on receipt” titles, except that the lower-left corner instruction box on the bindery ticket should indicate RUSH binding, and they should not be packed in a box, but wrapped in brown paper instead, and marked “RUSH”.

5.  Keep pink Ref. route slip and plate, and linked barcode sticker (on backing)  together with title and call no. info, so they can re-join the bound volume when returned.      

6.  Material color for non-periodicals should not be black (#99); and only Stanford publications should have red (#18).  The Nelson titles above are usually bound in a darker red (#12) and a medium-dark blue (#52) respectively; the “Beta book” is always bound in a darker blue (#57).  Other than #99 and #18, any color may be used; black ink is preferred on most bright colors, gold (or white) on the darker ones. The color swatch fan is in the main drawer of the “bindery office” desk.

 

Preparing index pages and “sheets”

1.  If index is to be bound in a volume, copy and trim as necessary; place at bottom of pile of issues to be bound.  It may be necessary to look in the first issue of the next volume to find an index (if it isn’t at the end of the last issue of a volume); if bindery instructions state that index is loose, or suggest that there might be an index, check the appropriate-lettered folder in the file drawer of the Per. Bindery ‘office’ desk in rm. 206.  (Indexes may need to be requested by mail or e-mail before sending to bindery.) 

2.  If binding a volume [number] of a title in 2 or more physical volumes with an index in the last one, place a sheet indicating in which volume the index will be found, e.g.: 
                     Index                    Index

                       See                       See

                     July-Dec.             no. 4-6

        

Even if the last volume is not ready for binding, the one being bound should have a sheet at the end.  There are some sheets already printed-out in a file in the upper compartment to the left of the computer in the Per. Bindery ‘office’; otherwise, print them from the “Sheets” folder in the “Jackson Tech. Services shared” folder on the desktop.  The above ‘generic’ index sheets don’t need to be ‘customized’ to match the title, but there are sheet ‘documents’ for special issues that are classified, and therefore are not bound with the rest of the volume.  This is a sample “special issue” sheet; the text on the sheet for the TAPPI directory:

         

                                         TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE PULP AND PAPER

                                               INDUSTRY DIRECTORY is catalogued TS1080 .T25

 

3.  Tie string around issues to be bound which include an index; be careful when using a rubber band.  These can sometimes tear the pages of the indexes.  Leave post-it on top issue until time to pack the shipment, to use for a last-chance proofreading comparison with the bindery ticket.  Tuck bindery ticket under string, not inside issue.  Shelve with other volumes on shelves opposite copy machine.

 

Packing the shipment to send to bindery

1.  Pack volumes to be sent to bindery by size, cushioned by crumpled packing paper stored in boxes stacked near the shelves for volumes to be sent to bindery.

2.  Compare tickets with post-it info for accuracy, and re-tie loose strings, as needed.

3.  Rush bindery requests should be packaged separately, and placed on top of the boxes for the shipment.
4.  When the shipment is almost ready, call Theodon Bindery; speak to Theodora, Don, or Peggy to request pick-up of boxes, and the shipment will be picked up within 1-2 days.  The number is: (510) 783-9990 (in Hayward).

 

Receipt of Bound Volumes

1.  As each volume is unpacked, remove yellow copy of bindery ticket from inside front page, and compare text on slip with spine imprint; shelve alphabetically on several book trucks.  Set aside any volumes with errors, with their yellow slips.

2.  Edge-stamp all 3 sides of volumes with single-line property stamp:

                                      STANFORD BUSINESS LIBRARY

3.  Check special-plate binder for titles requiring fund plates other than “Jackson Fund”, and tuck appropriate plate partway inside the front of the volume.  These plates are in a special file tray on the ‘Per. Bindery office ‘desk.

4.  Using a glue-stick, attach plates-“Jackson Fund” or others-inside front covers of all volumes.

5.  When all volumes are stamped and plated, wheel the trucks into the Collection Maintenance office to be shelved in periodical stacks.

6.  Make notes on yellow copies of bindery tickets to indicate correction of any imprint errors, or other problems found; tuck slips in volumes.  These will be sent with the next shipment for re-binding, unless they are ‘rush’ books.

7.  Also separate classified serial and monograph volumes to be processed as usual for non-periodicals: plates, edge-stamping, barcodes, date-due slips, and Ref. locations.  (Give to Helen.)

 

        

Enter “Bound” date in grid for volumes received from bindery

1.  The pink slips should be divided among bindery staff to share data entry of the “Bound” date in CARL [> Endeavor]

2.  Copy-&-paste date from a ‘macro’ replacing the “A date” in the grid for each issue in the bound volumes.