<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">At University of Central Florida, we started using preservation-friendly boxes in the last year or so, due to escalating binding costs and difficulties with pick-up, delivery, and responsiveness. It takes some staff time to do the labeling but I’m not sure it’s substantially more than binding. An added benefit is that the periodicals aren’t out of the library for months on end. We chose these in part because we needed a container that would work with our "robotic" storage system. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We're using these, from Hollinger:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">12 x 3 x 10, Pamphlet & Periodical Box, Archives Light
Grey Board, product number 10485AB – please order 3 at $11.75/each</p>
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<a href="http://www.shopbrodart.com/Library-School-Supplies/Shelf-Organization-Supplies/Princeton-and-Shelf-Files/_/Super-Budget-Cut-Corner-Shelf-Files/?=" target="_blank">http://www.shopbrodart.com/Library-School-Supplies/Shelf-Organization-Supplies/Princeton-and-Shelf-Files/_/Super-Budget-Cut-Corner-Shelf-Files/?=</a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 9:45 AM Arndt,Theresa <<a href="mailto:arndtt@dickinson.edu" target="_blank">arndtt@dickinson.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Dickinson stopped binding serials back in 2009 to save money. We simply put the unbound issues on the shelf (no containers). Not binding also saves staff time. It hasn’t been a problem, although I should
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