[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do you package books for shipping?

[Green, David]

What are consortia using to package books for shipping? Please share your experiences with packaging shipments. We would greatly appreciate it.

Size?
Durability?
Material?
What has worked for?
What hasn't worked?

NC Cardinal started resource sharing with our libraries - now 16 systems - in February of this year. We currently use tear-proof polyethylene bags to ship books among the systems. They are 14x17 and for one-time use only. The bags look like this, http://www.uline.com/BL_1551/Tear-Proof-Polyethylene-Mailers, only without the collared shirt. In 5+ months of resource sharing, we haven't received any reports of damaged books.

However, we are exploring other options, especially because we think we'd like reusable packaging.

Thank you,
David

David Green
NC Cardinal Data Specialist
Library Development
State Library of North Carolina
4640 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-4640
david.green at ncdcr.gov<mailto:david.green at ncdcr.gov>
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