[PADG:1215] RE: string or rubber bands for gathering binding units?

["Carli, Alice" <acarli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You might ask your binder to supply paper strips that can be taped in place instead of rubber bands. We've been using scrap paper strips to hold together pages of preservation photocopies we produce in-house when we send them for binding and they work very well -- when taped reasonably snugly they hold up long enough to store and pack the volumes, but tear off easily. And they are very easy on the materials. Binders would have the facilities to produce such strips cheaply, I would think. The kind of paper they normally use for packing material cut five inches wide, 20-24 inches long would work for nearly all journals.

Alice Carli
Conservator
Sibley Music Library

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-padg@xxxxxxx [mailto:owner-padg@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Bradshaw, Gloria
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:17 AM
> To: padg@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [PADG:1214] RE: string or rubber bands for gathering binding
> units?
> 
> 
> You are correct.  We have found the pressure from rubber 
> bands do indeed
> tear covers.  The binder usually does not take time to notice when the
> rubber bands are beginning to dry rot.  The binder recycles the rubber
> bands so much they tend to break and the issues will then be loose to
> scatter at will.
> 
> Gloria Bradshaw
> Preservation & Conservation
> Joyner Library
> East Carolina University
> Greenville, NC 27858-4353
> 252-328-0299  phone
> bradshawg@xxxxxxx
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-padg@xxxxxxx [mailto:owner-padg@xxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Jeanne
> Drewes
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:58 PM
> To: padg@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [PADG:1209] string or rubber bands for gathering 
> binding units?
> 
> We received a message from our binder recently asking that we 
> stop using
> string to gather together the separate issues of a journal title and
> instead to use rubber bands.  The binder has offered to provide the
> rubber bands but has also asked that we stop tying in any case as it
> takes them more time for processing.  My experience is that 
> using rubber
> bands are more likely to tear the covers than string is.  I would be
> interested in hearing from others on this topic.
> 
> 
> 
> Jeanne Drewes
> 
> 
> 
> Jeanne Drewes
> Chief, Binding & Collections Care
> Library of Congress
> jdre@xxxxxxx
> 202 707 5330
> 
>