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I worked in an academic library that rebound pretty much every book they acquired. One of the biggest in the world, too.
by DrewADesign 2mo ago
I worked in an academic library that rebound pretty much every book they acquired. One of the biggest in the world, too.
- kasey_junk 2mo agoMy wife worked for a company that specialized in rebinding paperbacks for schools and libraries. It makes more economic sense to do that for niche use cases rather than make all print runs more expensive.
- DrewADesign 2mo agoYeah it depends on the library and collection. If it’s a general-purpose library, probably a pretty limited portion of the collection. If it’s a grad school library with a low-turnover collection, like the one I worked in, that’s totally different. The college I worked for had dozens of libraries and their use cases were all pretty different.
- pfdietz 2mo agoNowadays, academic libraries are moving their books to archival storage. New publications are electronic only. You need to be a formal member of the university community to access it, unlike in times past when any member of the public could stroll the aisles of physical books and journals.
- DrewADesign 2mo agoMost academic libraries have large archival collections anyway, and the extent to which they de-emphasize their patron-facing stacks varies dramatically between institutions. Same with who can access them. You just can’t generalize like that.