Labeling Procedure

1. Take books off holding shelves and put them on a truck. See note at bottom of procedure if volumes are identified as unbound serials.

Inside work:

2. Stamp the library ownership stamp on the inside of the front cover. However, if it is a gift book, glue the
bookplate on the inside of the front cover instead. Support the cover while stamping or gluing.

If the stamp or bookplate will cover unique information, find another appropriate place to put it.

3. Affix the date due slip on the page opposite from the ownership stamp on top of the textblock.

If the date due slip will cover unique information, find another appropriate place to attach it.

Never attach the date due slip to the title page.

NOTE: Do not attach date due slips to Reference, Mngt. Library items, Divinity Library items, Special Collections copies of VColl, PColl items, Gov't Info items, and other non-circulating materials.

4. If the book has a hard cover, insert a white (one-sided)security strip using a bayonet down the inside of the spine. The silver side of the strip should be facing toward the outside of the book. For softcover paperback books use a green security strip (two-sided) placed along the inner margin near the approximate center of the pages. Select a spot where no text is compromised.

NOTE: Do not strip Mngt. Library items.

Generate call number labels

5. Log on to Internet Explorer and into the web-based spine labeling utility.

6. Use a barcode scanner to highlight each barcode on a book into the system. Scan one row of books at a time,
left to right, on each truck.

7. Click "Done: Print Labels" after a row of barcodes is scanned.

8. Click "PRINT" button on IE toolbar.

9. The row of Se-lin labels will print on a printer. Cut them out of the printer
when done.

10. Insert finished row of labels in the first and last books of each row.

11. Click "BACK" button on IE toolbar.

12. Click "Clear out barcodes."

13. Repeat steps #6-12 until all rows on the book truck have labels generated.

14. Cut a row of labels into individual labels using a label cutter.

15. Using a hot plate, iron each label on books, one row at a time. Match the correct spine label to the item by comparing barcodes.

16. Tally up each finished book and write them up on a statistic sheet,
and the number of hours spent working on a truck.

NOTE: Volumes identified as unbound serials only receive spine labels. No inside work is done.