Process for items in need of repair:
- Materials needing repair are placed on the mending shelf in Access Services. Set processing status to Mending Needed (MN)
- The Binding Associate will determine "Cannot Mend", "Can mend in-house" or "Pre-1900". For materials able to be mended, Binding Associate sets the processing status to Mending Being Done (MD)
- If pre-1900, Access Services sets the processing status to Rarebook Review (RB) and delivers to Special Collections
- Binding Associate sets processing status to Spine Table (SP) for items needing relabeling and delivers to ABC.
- Bibliographers determine whether to withdraw or replace
- Bibliographers should indicate reason for withdrawal and deliver to ABC
- Bibliographers should include BIP citation or other verification if replacement order should be placed and indicate whether it should be a specific edition
- If to to be encased rather than mended, set processing status to To ABC (CT) and deliver to ABC
- Include any special instructions, new location, etc.
ABC will carry out tasks appropriate to the decisions:
- order replacement
- withdraw, mark item withdrawn, retain withdrawal decision with item, and store on shelves to go to booksale
- relabel once repaired
- encase in adjustable containers and double barcode the item and the container
- recatalog if indicated in special instructions
