In a message dated 96-04-12 09:50:38 EDT, you write:
>
>Suggestion: If there is any thought that one day you might want to sell
>those books, perhaps you shouldn't deface them with markers or labels. If
>you absolutely must have labels on the spine, use something peelable (a
>word?). Also, you might forego the odd practice of putting company stamps
on
>the page edges. I'm sure this has an important purpose, since so many law
>libraries do it. I just never have figured out what that purpose is.
>
>Rodger
>
>
At least one purpose: Return to correct owners.
Those of us who work in law libraries which
circulate items to firms which have collections of their
own can return items brought to the library be mistake
when there is a stamp which indicates who it should be
returned to--right now I have on my shelf several books
which were returned to the library by mistake, which
have no markings and I don't know who to contact.
Likewise--if one of our books is returned to the wrong library
they know who it belongs to and can return it because
it is marked.
Kathy Carlson
Wyoming State Law Library
kcarlson@windy.state.wy.us
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