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We have gone with selective saving of dust jackets. We keep the
dust jacket on the book rather than trying to save the dust jacket elsewhere. We
retain the dust jacket and protect with a polyester jacket for art, photography,
and special collections. Often the jacket has a photo of a piece of art work
that is referred to within the book but does not repeat the image internally.
We let the bibliographers determine which books should retain their jackets. We went from not saving book jacket with polyester jacket on the
item to selective use so I cannot tell you how much/little a polyester jacket reduces
wear and tear. At least one college in our area, automatically retains all
jackets and uses polyester jacket for literary works with the assumption that
the books will get higher circulation if they look more attractive and with
higher circulation will need a little more protection. Just some food for thought, Nancy
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/preservation/ From: David Kupas
[mailto:dmkupas@xxxxxxxxxxx] For
those libraries that remove the dust jackets from hardcover books, has the loss
of protection provided by the jacket and the accompanying polyester jacket
resulted in any increase in damage/wear to the boards? Also, do you save
any of the textual information from the jackets, such as the publisher's blurb?
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