[padg] Re: Rare materials in remote storage

[Gillian Boal <gboal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michele,
Here at Berkeley we too have a clamshell box made by our bindery - 
approx $5-$8.00 each and send it out to our Northern Regional Library 
Facility in the box. We can also chose to do a minor tissue hinge or 
we use a hollow tube to reattach covers before we box. The barcode 
can be put on the box. We have allowed the storage facility to use 
ziplock bags if they find something that needs containing. When it 
gets used it comes to us for boxing.
Gillian


At 01:32 PM 3/6/2008, Michele Brown wrote:
> I've been asked by our Curator of Rare Books to get feedback 
> regarding bar coding of rare materials being sent to off site 
> storage facilities. For those of you who send these materials off 
> site: how do you attach a bar code? When rare materials are on the 
> shelf, the bar code is attached to a card that lays in the book, but 
> when put in a storage tray these cards may fall out. We don't want 
> to attach the bar code directly to the item. One idea would be to 
> attach the bar code to a piece of paper that wraps around the front 
> cover. However, this will only work if the covers are attached and 
> in good condition. What are people doing in the cases of detached 
> covers or materials without covers?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Michele Brown
> Book Conservator
> Department of Preservation and Collection Maintenance
> B-31 Olin Library
> Cornell University
> Ithaca, NY 14853
> (607) 255-2484
> http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/operations/bookconservation.html


Gillian Boal
Hans Rausing Conservator
Head of Conservation Treatment Division
Preservation Department
9 Doe Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
510/643-7932
FAX 510/642-4664
email: gboal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx