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8 Books are entered in the accession book.
9 Books are stamped with library stamp.
10 Books are opened to loosen binding, and pages cut, if necessary.
11 The book-plates are pasted inside the front cover--if book-plates
are used.
12 Pockets are pasted on the inside of front cover or wherever the
system adopted places them.
13 Labels are put on the backs.
14 Books are classified, author-numbered and call-numbered.
15 Books are entered on shelf-list.
16 Catalog cards are written--author, title, and subject.
17 Bulletin lists of the books are made out for posting up and for
newspapers.
18 Call-numbers are written on the labels, the pockets, and the book
slips.
19 Labels are varnished.
20 The call-number of each book is entered in the proper place on the
line which that book occupies in the accession book.
21 Books are placed on the library shelves for public use.
22 Catalog cards, author, title, and subject, are arranged
alphabetically in one series and distributed in catalog.
CHAPTER XXVII
Binding and mending
Binding a book means not only covering it, but preserving it. Good
binding, even at a high price, educates the public taste and promotes
a desire to protect the library from injury and loss. Cheap binding
degrades books and costs more in the end than good work.
Keep in a bindery-book, which may be any simple blank book, or one
especially made for the purpose (see Library Bureau catalog), a record
of each volume that the library binds or rebinds.
Enter in the bindery-book consecutive bindery number, book-number,
author, title, binding to be used, date sent to bindery, date returned
from bindery, and cost of binding.
Books subject to much wear should be sewn on tapes, not on strings;
should have cloth joints, tight backs, and a tough, flexible leather,
or a good, smooth cloth of cotton or linen such as is now much used
by good binders. Most of the expensive leather, and all cheap leather,
rots in a short time; good cloth does not. Very few libraries can
afford luxurious binding. Good material, strong sewing, and a moderate
degree of skill and taste in finishing are all they can pay for. Learn
to tell a substantial piece of work when you see it, and insist that
you get such from your binder. The beginners' first business is to
inform himself carefully as to character, value, cost and strength of
all common binding materials.
From binders, or from dealers in binding material, you can get samples
of cloth, leather, tapes, string, thread, etc., which will help you to
learn what to ask for from your local binder.
The following notes are from a lecture by John H.H. McNamee before
the Massachussets library club in 1896, on the Essentials of good
binding:
"Had I the ordering of bindings for any public or circulating library
where books are given out to all classes of people, and subjected
to the handling which such books must receive, I should, from my
experience as a binder, recommend the following rules:
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