Barbara,
RE: new bookbinding machine (PADG 2216):
We’re not using it here at U.
Florida yet, but …
The INTERNET ARCHIVE’s BOOKMOBILE
has been using it for about two years now.
Here’s a URL for the binder: http://www.powis.com/products/model8.asp
More information about the bookmobile can
be found at: http://www.archive.org/texts/bookmobile-in_it.php#hardware
Copies of the product were distributed at
last year’s International Children’s Digital Library meeting in San Francisco. The
product, including printing, trimming, and binding took all of a few minutes
per volume. A 200+ page reprint of Alice
in Wonderland cost under $1 including materials, labor, and the amortized cost
of the bookmobile. The product appears to be reasonably durable –
certainly enough for on-demand reading and several re-uses. Produced as consumables,
the volumes will no doubt find their way into libraries, where they’ll
fare no worse than the average paper-back if retained in paper format.
Binding margins are excellent – but depend upon the producer –
enough to support rebinding if a library does decide to retain the paper
reprint. God help the catalogers!
The Bookmobile (http://www.archive.org/texts/bookmobile.php)
is now a multi-national endeavor supporting inner-city and 3rd world
literacy programs. UF maintains an agreement with the Internet Archive to
supply volumes from its Literature for Children (http://palmm.fcla.edu/juv/) for print on
demand.
I’ve been investigating installation
of a stationary “bookmobile” here. Reports from contacts with
the Internet Archive continue to confirm the average price – assume bitonal
and grey-scale source files/images or bitonal or grey-scale printing. At
$1, this option puts the University’s DocTech system to shame (which is
$10 on average). My investigation has shifted to storage and maintenance
costs, specifically the ratio of paper to digital (with data store in a trusted
repository, cf, http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/index.htm
and redundant copy at the Internet Archive. My cost analyses aren’t
ready to share.
Why should library technical services
units come to resemble Kinkos?
Why couldn’t we leverage our
holdings with Kinkos and others for (trusted access but limited &)
reasonably priced on-demand printing? That is, why shouldn’t Kinkos
continue to Kinko?
Yours,
Erich
Erich Kesse
Digital Library Center
University of Florida
From: Barbara B. Eden
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Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004
8:57 AM
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Subject: [PADG:2216] Fwd: FYI: New
book binding machine
Hi Folks,
Has anyone checked this machine out?
Barbara
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To: Barbara Berger Eden <beb1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: FYI: New book binding machine
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Barbara:
Have you heard about a new desktop-sized print-on-demand and book binding
machine? According to one account I read (at
<http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000087.html>), "The system can also
rebind existing books with new covers at costs ranging from 28 cents to a
dollar, less than a one-quarter of the cost to libraries of sending books out.
Library technical services departments will come to resemble a Kinko's."
The was also an NPR story, Book-Binding Techniques Could Revive Rare Texts <http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1593646>.
Peter
Barbara B. Eden
Cornell University Library phone:
607-255-5291
Associate Director fax: 607-254-7493
IRIS/ Department of Preservation
and Collection Maintenance
B15 Olin Library
Ithaca, NY
14853
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