[padg] RE: Rare materials in remote storage

["Brandau, John" <jbrandau@xxxxxx>]

Michele,

We place rare and fragile materials in envelopes and then place a
duplicate barcode on the envelope.


John A. Brandau
Library Annex Manager
University of Kansas
1880 Westbrook
Lawrence, Kansas 66045
Office: (785) 864-0488
E-mail: jbrandau@xxxxxx
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michele Brown [mailto:mb72@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:33 PM
To: padg@xxxxxxx
Subject: [padg] Rare materials in remote storage

I've been asked by our Curator of Rare Books to get feedback regarding
bar coding of rare materials being sent to off site storage facilities.
For those of you who send these materials off site: how do you attach a
bar code? When rare materials are on the shelf, the bar code is attached
to a card that lays in the book, but when put in a storage tray these
cards may fall out. We don't want to attach the bar code directly to the
item. One idea would be to attach the bar code to a piece of paper that
wraps around the front cover. However, this will only work if the covers
are attached and in good condition. 
What are people doing in the cases of detached covers or materials
without covers?

Thanks.


Michele Brown
Book Conservator
Department of Preservation and Collection Maintenance
B-31 Olin Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-2484
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/operations/bookconservation.
html