[Publib] Circulating old magazines

[Shaw, Matthew M]

If you are planning to maintain the magazines in your collection for a number of years, it might make sense to protect them. However, I have never worked in a library that did so and it did not prove to be much of a problem. Bagging a large collection would be very costly. You might want to consider bagging just a select list of titles that are particularly expensive and/or that may get significant use over several years. Examples might include craft and hobby magazines with project directions.
 
Matt Shaw
Forsyth County Public Library
660 West Fifth Street 
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
(336) 703-2978

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Robert L
Sent: Mon 9/10/2007 12:02 PM
To: PubLib
Cc: rlogan at round-rock.tx.us
Subject: [Publib] Circulating old magazines


I know this topic has been talked to death, but we plan to circulate back issues of magazines, and it has been suggested that they be circulated in plastic bags or covers to extend their life. Does anyone who circulates magazines do this? We would use only the cheapest available bags or covers, and we are debating whether it may be worthwile to do so at all.

Any suggestions about this? Any other pitfalls to be aware of when circulating back issues? The decision to circulate back issues has been taken - now we're down to details.

Robert Logan
Manager TS/CD
Round Rock Public Library
Round Rock, TX







 






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