Rodger,
I think the purpose is that such stamps are both hard to remove and hard to
conceal. Books do have a way of wandering off, you know.
Bob Ryan
Frandzel & Share
6500 Wilshire Blvd, 17th Fl
Los Angeles, CA 90048
(213)852-1000
At 09:45 AM 4/12/96 -0400, 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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