Excerpt: ...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 ...
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Excerpt: ...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: For the smaller volumes of juveniles, novels, and perishable books (by which I mean books which are popular for a short time, and then may lie on the shelves almost as so much lumber), have each book pulled to pieces and sewed with...
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VG ex-library. Dark blue binding, gilt lettering, library markings. A library primer was published in the six numbers of Public Libraries in. 1896, largelymade up of extracts from an aticle by Dr. W. F. Poole on The organization and management of public, libraries, which formed part of the reporton Public libraries in the U.S., published by the U.S. Burea of education in 1876; from W. I. Fletcher's Public libraries in America; from Mary W. Plummer's Hints to small libraries, and from papers in the Library journal and A.L.A. proceedings. Author Dana revised, rewrote, and extended the original draft for publication in book form.
