Kris,
Thanks for bringing up this issue. At
the Midwinter 2006 ALCTS Board Meeting, ALCTS unanimously approved the
following resolution:
"The requesting library shall not adhere any pressure sensitive
adhesive, including labels, notes, Post-It Notes, tapes, or other such
products to any borrowed item. Ill labels should be affixed only to
flags or paper bands, not to, in, or on the material itself, or its dust
jacket."
ALCTS expected the language to be incorporated into the National ILL Code.
I learned just prior to Midwinter 2008 that the Code was to be voted
on and the new language had not been incorporated. PARS Executive
Committee, Karen Brown, and others wrote to Tess Gibson, chair of the RUSA
committee dealing with this issue, and others to plead our case. There
was some resistance. I didn't attend Midwinter that year but I hoped
that a PARS representative would attend the RUSA/ILL committee meeting
to press further. I don't know what the outcome was. I brought
the matter to Andy Hart's attention and it might have been discussed at
the ALCTS Board Meeting (Midwinter 2008).
Our ILL librarian did a trial run with
the stickers when she accidently used the wrong label stock with permanent
adhesive. We now bill libraries $50 that return our books with stickers
on them (permanent or not). We also did time trials and found it
took about the same amount of time to attach the paper label as it did
the sticker.
Patricia
Patricia Selinger
Head, Preservation Department
VCU Libraries
Box 842033
Richmond, VA 23284-2033
They were starting a revision of the code then—including banning stickers.
I don’t have an update to hand as to whether the code was so revised,
but that would be a place to look.
--
Shannon Zachary
Preservation & Conservation
University Library, University of Michigan
From: Kristen Kern <kernk@xxxxxxx>
Organization: Portland State University
Reply-To: <padg@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:13:20 -0700
To: <padg@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [padg] ILL stickers
Hi All,
The question about using the non-permanent stickers on books for routing
when lent to other libraries has risen again for our library. Thus far
we have managed to maintain the use of the paper wrap for routing, but
there is a move to make the processing of lent books more "efficient."
Was there an initiative to ban the use of the stickers that was discussed
in PARS, or am I imagining it?
Any ammunition to discourage this practice would be most appreciated.
Thanks very much,
Kris
--
Kristen Kern
Preservation/Catalog Librarian
Portland State Library
Portland State University
P.O. Box 1151
Portland, OR 97207
503-725-5218
503-725-5799 kernk@xxxxxxx
