Binding Services

Academic and administrative departments at the University of Connecticut can send theses, books and journals to Preservation to process for commercial binding. Preservation will enter data records for the items on the commercial library binding software system, ship the materials in a regularly scheduled bindery shipment and receive the materials from the bindery when the items are bound.

Departments are responsible for paying the cost of commercial binding through a transer voucher made out to University Libraries. We are no longer accepting paper copies of transfer vouchers, please use the electronic transfer voucher system.

Please use the Department Binding Services form to provide us with information on spine labeling, cloth cover and any additional information. The form is available for downloading in two formats:

Department Binding Services form in WORD (.doc) format (can be downloaded and edited on the computer)
Department Binding Services form in ADOBE ACROBAT (.pdf) format

Shipment Schedule

The bindery shipment is every Wednesday. Items received after 12 p.m. on Tuesday may not go out until the following week’s shipment. Most items sent to the bindery are returned two weeks after the shipment date (the day the items are sent to the bindery, not the day they are delivered to Preservation) and are available after 3 p.m. on that day. Materials requiring special work, such as reprints and phaseboxes, may take longer (3-4 weeks).

Pickup/Delivery

Departments are responsible for arranging pickup and delivery of items to and from Preservation. Items can be sent to us through campus mail. The mailing address is:

Homer Babbidge Library
Preservation
Unit 1005P
ATTN: Fred Rick/Binding

Arrangements for pickup and delivery of large shipments can be made through the Central Warehouse.

Color Samples

The following are samples of the cover binding colors. Please note that due to the limitations of digital images, these are not exact reproductions of the available colors.