over the last few months the serials team has been laboriously boxing up the loose issues of journals from our suprisingly large backlog. instead of binding old issues of journals the lmu library boxes them for storage. all of the old journal volumes are in a paged collection, so having them inside boxes doesn’t hinder browsing. with the amount of dust that we create in the library, boxing the volumes is a pretty good preservation technique as well. also -and this was probably the driving force for the decision- boxing a volume of a periodical is much cheaper than binding. a single box can be around $4, compared to a single bound volume at around $11.
we just got a shipment of boxes the other day. i thought you might like to see what a box of boxes looks like. inside those giant boxes are 20 standard letter sized hollinger document boxes or 40 slim letter sized document boxes. we get ours from hollinger metal edge. this last shipment was for 1000 standard and 300 slim boxes. that’s a lot of giant boxes showing up on our loading dock, but meghan (on the left) and molly (on the right) make moving them all upstairs to the second floor look like fun.
Meghan, Molly, and the Hollinger boxes
