[padg] Re: Rare materials in remote storage

["Sophia Jordan" <sjordan@xxxxxxx>]

We use a mylar strap that is strapped across the front cover over.  The mylar is about 2-3" wide strapped to itself with double sided tape.  Then the bar-code is adhered to the strap.  This does not tend to shift as much as paper and it retains visibilty.

This technqiue as been around and was first presented by the Folger Shakespeare Library in the 90s.



Sonja K. Jordan-Mowery
Joseph Ruzicka & Marie Ruzicka Feldmann 
Director of Library Preservation
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
Voice: 410-516-4383
Fax: 410-516-4355

>>> Michele Brown <mb72@xxxxxxxxxxx> 3/6/2008 4:32 PM >>>
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