Library Bookbinding

librarian does not begrudge money for salaries; heat, light and the general up-keep are items that cannot be reduced materially in most libraries. But money s

varies in different parts of the United States, it is impossible to give figures of cost applicable to all places. Furthermore, as

an fifty cents a book for fiction and juvenile books eight inches or less in height, bound in cowhide, government cloth, or the more expensive imperial morocco cloth. For this amount the librarian should get the bes

llent service. When low prices are charged the librarian should be sure that, taking the ratio of cost to circulation into consideration, he is getting full value. In general, it may be said that he who gets fiction and juvenile books well b

increases at the rate of from fifteen to twent

ccording to size is also somewhat greater. One dollar is the highest price paid within the knowledge of the writer for an eight-inch

e cents to eighty cents a volume ten inches or less in height, increasi

olume, nor over $4.00. More variations will be found in t

action thereof in height to ten inches; in most cases the increase is for each two inches or fraction. For example, a book which measures eight and one quarter inches in height is char

and materials which the librarian must take into consideration. Th

IND

cellaneous Books Not Excee

in. 10 i

n or Cowhid

ibrary Buckra

Morocco Clot

n. Extra si

r Cowhide 1.10

rary Buckram) 1

orocco Cloth 1.

s thick charged at

et and Folio Music Not Exce

in. 10 i

Buck.) or Full

Morocco Clot

hide 50

(English) 5

(American)

cco 65 80

terproof side

n. Extra si

uck. or Full Duck

orocco Cloth 1.

de 1.30 1.

(English) 1.3

American) 1.30

co 1.50 1.

rproof sides) 1

nclude all let

thick charged at r

n half library buckram or half d

ies, cyclopedias and other s

NS FOR RE

e cost of binding, a few of them being obviously make

nd Before

pter 6) a full statement of reasons f

ound Befor

ined in cheap reprints directly to their binders, who buy the books and rebind them in the regular half-leather binding which the library uses for its rebound fiction and juvenile. He bills the books to the library at the cost of the volume plus the cost of binding, the total in any event being considerably less than one dollar. Not over ninety

d-Han

eries in large cities can undertake to supply second-hand books, with advantages both to themselves and to the libraries employing them. The library is relieved from the necessity of searching for second-hand volumes, while the binder can well afford to do this service for a stated price per volume which will be reasonable from t

forc

tch. It is advisable to buy such books frequently, since they preserve the attractive publisher's cover and since they can also be recovered by the library itself without resewing. Statistics kept by the Wilmington Institute Free Library show that such books when prope

ng at th

to recover them at the library and letter them by hand. In cases where the sewing is poor it will be possible to resew and recover. Such books are neither so strong nor so attractive as books which have been wholly rebound, but they can be recovered at an expe

ng Value

t they must be kept. Books that have outlived their usefulness because they have been superseded by later editions, or by other book

er vs

t. It may almost be made a general rule, though like other rules, it will not work we

p Ed

need rebinding with good editions cheaper th

per

the library may be pro

e paper knife should be carried to the back of the bo

he covers on the table. Taking a few leaves at a time first at the front and then at the back, press them down carefully until the middl

e pressed tightly tog

iled on other books res

pulled from the shel

ld be dusted

pright on the shelves in

uld be handled as if the