Re: Preservation Photocopy Vendors

[Pete Merrill-Oldham <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Acme Bookbinding has been providing preservation photocopying services for
over six years.  Our normal turnaround is 4 weeks upon receipt of a
shipment.  We pay for all return shipments of preservation photocopying
with invoices of over $250, and will pay both ways for shipments with
invoices of $1,000 or more.  We work this out by having a library ship via
UPS, billing the shipment to our account.  We recently won the Library of
Congress Contract, and provide these services to a number of other
libraries that are not regular binding customers including: The New York
Public Library, the University of Chicago Library, and the University of
Michigan Library to name a few. Our current preservation photocopying price
list is provided as an attached file.

Anyone interested in our services for preservation photocopying, custom
enclosures or multimedia enclosures and binding can contact Pete
Merrill-Oldham at pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx  Information about these and other
services are also located on our web site www.acmebook.com.




At 04:41 PM 12/9/97 -0600, you wrote:
>The University of Kansas Libraries bid a preservation photocopying
contract a few years ago.  The contract was awarded to BookLab.  We also
negotiated a specific contract with BookLab for Brittle--a cooperative
preservation photocopying program.  BookLab is generally cooperative and
helpful, and their product is FANTASTIC!!!!  Whatever problems BookLab may
have (and they have a few), the quality of their work is near perfection.
You have to see it to believe it!  I think ICI, Bridgeport, Acme, and Ocker
& Trapp binderies all have preservation photocopying operations now, but I
think that some of them may be limiting their services to just their
binding customers--I have not checked for a while.  
>
>I will be happy to share our bid specs with anyone who would like a copy,
but I should warn you that we need to re-bid our contract early next year
so we will be re-working the specs--probably quite significantly.
>
>Cheer!
>
>Brian Baird
>
>
>
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>Brian J. Baird
>Preservation Librarian
>University of Kansas
>502 Watson Library 
>Lawrence, KS 66045-2800
>(785) 864-3568	
>fax: (785) 864-5311
>bbaird@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
>>>> WILLIAMS SARA R <Sara.Williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/09 3:18 PM >>>
>
>Our photocopy operation has expanded to the point where I need to consider
>writing specifications and getting bids from vendors. Has anyone else gone
>through a competitive bidding process for preservation photocopy
>replacement services? If so, would you be willing to share your
>specifications?  I'm also interested in the names of any vendors you would
>be willing to recommend. 
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
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>Sara R. Williams			Phone:  (303) 492-3849
>Head, Preservation Department		FAX: (303) 492-0494
>University Libraries			Sara.Williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>Campus Box 184
>University of Colorado - Boulder
>Boulder CO  80309-0184
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Acme Bookbinding
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