Roger,
Several times in the 9.5 years I have worked in my library, we
have had calls from firm libraries here in St. Louis and as far away as
Chicago. They have found books in their libraries marked with our stamps
of ownership. We don't sell our books, so some one (some officer of the
court, I suppose :) had carried our books away and deposited them in the
firm library. We were very glad to get them back. One time, we found a
book with our stamp in a garage sale, another at an annual book sale.
This is why so many libraries stamp their books.
Betsy McKenzie
Head of Readers Sevices
St. Louis University
School of Law Library
3700 Lindell Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63108
(314) 977-2739
I-net mckenziebm@sluvca.slu.edu
On Fri, 12 Apr 1996 Lawstuff@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 96-04-11 18:30:47 EDT, henexson@CLASS.ORG (Fay Henexson)
> writes:
>
> >For marking books we have found a good alternative to stickers, tape,
> >etc. is to use silver or gold permanent markers
>
> 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
>
>
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