[ILL-L] RE: Banding Books

[Katherine Brent]

We used to use the Avery 6464 on our lending, but they're expensive (ok,
relatively, but our budget is doing anything but growing), so now we use
them only for borrowing.  Our name is on our bar codes (as SUNY Cobleskill),
and most items are stamped with our name, and possibly more information,
depending on when we got it.  The ILL slip is included; we put the
transaction number from ILLiad by the due date in the back of the book in
case the paper work doesn't come back to us.

If your book is banded when it gets to us, we leave the band intact and put
our borrowing label on the band.  The Avery 6464 come off things fine for
us, although when a different brand of label was purchased, those did not
(not so much that they were damaging materials; just that they wouldn't come
off in one piece, and were a pain), and we made sure to switch back.  (If
you don't want even removable adhesives on your materials and there's a note
to that effect in your paperwork, I print the borrowing labels as a
half-sheet (long-ways) and make a band.)

We don't currently include return address labels; this is mostly a budgetary
issue.  I've been tweaking the Word forms for ILLiad lending to consolidate
the pull slip and shipping label, but I haven't squeezed a return label onto
it yet.  (I probably could; you'd just have to cut it off the bottom of the
lending slip.)

I've got Lending down to a half sheet (long-ways) per item.  Borrowing has
more printing, and I haven't condensed it as much yet.  If I could get my
hands on reuseable book bands, maybe with a pocket, I could probably get
borrowing down to a single print on one sheet of paper, as well.

If you send a return label, we'll generally use it.  (If we forget, and
print one as part of a batch of returns, we'll send yours back to you so
hopefully you can reuse it.)

Katherine


Katherine Brent
Van Wagenen Library
SUNY Cobleskill
brentke at cobleskill.edu
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