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Collection Guidelines - Collection Management

Binding

Binding is undertaken as part of the collection maintenance process, in order to preserve individual issues of serials, to improve access to the collection by keeping serial issues together and in good order and to assist with preservation and usability of monograph material. Binding is not considered essential for all items in the collection and the following criteria are normally applied:

Serial binding

Serial titles normally considered for binding must have one of the following criteria:

1. Unique current subscription (i.e. not a duplicate) with no electronic equivalent and with at least one of the following characteristics:

• Scholarly content or
• Heavily used and are inclined to deteriorate or
• Flimsy and/or hard to manage or
• Contains graphic material such as art and architecture

2. Print titles with full electronic equivalent that have been exempted from cancellation or discard

Serial titles not normally considered for binding will have one of the following criteria:

• Titles for which an equivalent electronic subscription is held
• Titles that are on the JSTOR electronic archive
• Duplicate titles (where a unique copy is already bound)
• Titles which are replaced by microform
• Titles which are replaced by a cumulation or superseded version
• Titles which will not be kept in perpetuity
• Newsletters
• Newspapers

Monograph binding

Binding of monograph material is intended to improve the preservation of the item, make it more robust or improve the usability of the item.

• In-house soft cover binding is used to make some monograph items not intended for long term preservation, more robust, for example, Deakin course materials and some loose leaf materials.
• Some items needing more robust binding or intended for longer term preservation or use are sent to commercial binders.
• Monograph material that has been dismantled for digitisation purposes yet is still seen as having future use or value is normally also rebound, e.g. theses material.