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
Nancy
E. Kraft
319/335-5286
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/preservation/
From: David Kupas
[mailto:dmkupas@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:43 AM
To: padg@xxxxxxx
Subject: [padg] Dust jackets
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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David Kupas
Access Services and Assistant Collection Management Librarian
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
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