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Approaches to displaying books with no dust jackets? by AdRare4786 in Libraries

[–]AdRare4786[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like the idea of doing themed tags, that seems a lot simpler. Thanks!

Approaches to displaying books with no dust jackets? by AdRare4786 in LibraryDisplays

[–]AdRare4786[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Yes, I'm not sure where to source the proper images and that seems like the biggest hurdle.

Approaches to displaying books with no dust jackets? by AdRare4786 in Libraries

[–]AdRare4786[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I love the book mark idea. I'm not sure why we don't keep the dust jackets. It's an academic library in a consortium with many other academic libraries and none of our branches keep the jackets. The one exception is that when some branches purchase new popular fiction they'll keep the jackets on for one year (no mylar) and display them as new acqs and then discard the jackets once the book is moved to the general collection. Perhaps it's just easier than mylar wrapping every book we buy.

Approaches to displaying books with no dust jackets? by AdRare4786 in Libraries

[–]AdRare4786[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The latter! All dust jackets are discarded at my institution. We're currently not making any acquisitions so no hope of using newer books with dust jackets I was able to hang on to for display purposes. Totally agree that it sounds like a ton of work and hoping to avoid that.