[padg] Re: barcodes on cloth

[Janet Gertz <gertz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We put barcodes for our off-site repository on the outside.  We haven't 
had problems with cloth that I'm aware of, but I hate putting them on 
leather (especially if it's in poor condition) if case we ever 
anticipate needing to remove them.  And we have numerous leather 
bindings on general collections volumes.

Janet
Janet Gertz
Director, Preservation & Digital Conversion Division
Columbia University Libraries

Pilette, Roberta wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   Yale has changed the barcode location for its general collection 
> materials to the outside of the book.  For the most part it works fine 
> on buckram but we are finding some problems with cloth bindings 
> especially in the East Asian and SE Asian collections.  I know we 
> can't be the only ones who have this issue. 
>
>  
>
>   How did those of you doing barcodes on the outside of bindings get 
> barcodes to stick to these cloths?
>
>  
>
> thanks
>
> Bobbie Pilette
>
> Hd, Preservation Dept