[ILL-L] Banding Books

[Melissa Jackson]

We use the ILLiad pull slip to create a white band and put it on the books we loan.  We don't include a return label, but do have our address printed at the bottom of the band.  Libraries can cut it off and use that if they don't have ILLiad or Clio to automatically print a return label.  (We wish we could include a label, but that's not possible for financial reasons.)

For books we borrow, we print a band on blue paper and put that on top of the lender's band if there is one.  We staple or tape any other paperwork to our band, so it doesn't get lost.  We remove our band and stick the lender's paperwork back in the book when it's time to send it home.  

Hope this helps!


Melissa Jackson
ILL Librarian


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From: 	"Hoover, Sally" <shoover at mail.smu.edu>
To:	"'ILL-L at webjunction.org'" <ILL-L at webjunction.org>
Date: 	6/12/2009 5:27 PM
Subject: 	[ILL-L] Banding Books

Greetings from Dallas and Happy Friday!

I have a couple of questions.  When you loan a book, how do you mark that it's yours?   We put a band of yellow around our books, with the ILL information, due date, etc.
If this book was loaned to you, would you put your own band around the cover of the book?   How do you identify this book as a loaned ILL item?

When you loan a book, do you band it?  If not, how do you mark it as belonging to your library?  Do you just depend on the loan slip to provide all the information?

Oh, one more thing.  Do you provide a return address label with your book?   I send out return labels, but it seems not many libraries actually use them.

My supervisor wants to make changes in our identification process, so your input would be helpful.  You can e-mail me off line if you want.

Thanks.

Sally




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