National Library of Medicine, Office of Acquisitions Management, 8600 Rockville Pike, Building 38A, Room B1N17, Bethesda, MD 20894

R -- BINDING PREPARATION SERVICES FOR THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE SOL RFP NLM 95-105/SLC DUE 060195 POC Sharon Cummings, 301-496-6546. The National Library of Medicine has a requirement for the preparation for binding of library materials as a means of preservation. Approximately 27,000 volumes of serials and monographs are received unbound each year. These volumes must be bound in hard covers to protect them from damage during use and to keep individual serial issues from being easily lost. The Library sends materials to a commercial binder. The purpose of the binding preparation project is to retrieve volumes from the collection which require binding, collate the volumes and prepare instructions for the commercial binder, check in and perform quality control on the commercial binding, attach bar codes, and update NLM files which indicate the binding status of volumes. A related task included in the project is to pull from the shelves unbound volumes which have been superseded by cumulations. The work is performed onsite at the National Library of Medicine. Inquiries may be referred to National Library of Medicine, Office of Acquisitions Management, 8600 Rockville Pike, Building 38A, Room B1N17, Bethesda, Maryland 20894. Attention: Sharon L. Cummings, Contract Specialist, (301)496-6546. Telephone/FAX requests will not be accepted. (0089)

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