Call number labels

Gloria Bradshaw <bradshawg [at] mail__ecu__edu> writes

>... The institute is having
>trouble with the rare item ID strips being too tall for their
>shelving and trouble with the strips remaining in the bindings (some
>of the bindings are spiral and pamphlets.) ...

You might consider adapting a procedure Linda Blaser developed for
applying barcode stickers to rare books in the Folger Library's
modern stacks: adhering the sticker to polyethylene strapping.  As
Linda wrote in Vol. 19 of the Book and Paper Group Annual, "The
strapping is formed into a ring and slid onto the back cover. The
barcode is adhered to that strap."  For the full article, see
<URL:http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/bpg/annual/v19/bp19-28.html>

Erin C. Blake
Curator of Art and Special Collections
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 E. Capitol St. SE
Washington, DC 200033-1094
USA
202-675-0323


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