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[padg] Re: Dust jackets?
Title: Re: [padg] Dust jackets?
I don’t have hard-and-fast data, just a recollection of talking to someone who looked into this a while back. The conclusions, as I recall, were: dust jackets (with their library polyester overjackets) significantly reduce wear on the joints, board edges, headcaps, and corners of the bindings; their use may somewhat increase damage in the inner hinges.
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Shannon Zachary
Preservation & Conservation
University Library, University of Michigan
From: David Kupas <dmkupas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: <padg@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:43:09 -0500
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
<http://wustl.edu>
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