Types of Materials
Analytic: part of a serial or monographic set, usually with a distinctive title, which is cataloged both as part of the serial or set and as a monograph under its individual title; the item is classified using the serial or set call number. These items are always bound separately.
Monograph: an item either complete in one part or intended to be completed in a finite number of parts (e.g. a novel, a set of encyclopedias, etc.).
Serial: a publication issued in successive parts, usually bearing numerical or chronological designations and intended to be continued indefinitely. Within the K-State Libraries serials are subdivided into two major categories, periodicals and serials.
- Periodicals:titles which are received more than once annually; the bibliographic volume is complete in more than one issue and cannot be bound until those issues are in hand. EXAMPLES: Newsweek, Reader's Digest, Quarterly Review.
- Serials: titles which are received once annually or less frequently; each issue is a complete bibliographic unit. While serial issues may be bound together for technical reasons, each issue is a complete entity and can be bound separately. EXAMPLES: Annual Bulletin of Construction Statistics, Papers in Seventeenth Century French Literature.
Categories of Binding
Bind-in-cover: original paperback cover is bound into volume as the first and last pages. These can be both custom or paperback binding.
Custom Bind: Class A binding used for monographs and serials that require special attention due to paper quality, narrow margins, fold-outs, size, or other necessary special instructions.
Paperback: Class C binding used for monographs and serials that can be trimmed, adhesive bound, and have no unusual characteristics.
Digicover: a process by which original paperback cover is copied and laminated to a hard cover. The original cover must have a complete spine. These materials are adhesive bound.
Pamphlet: Class C binding used for items with 50 or less pages, that will be sewn through the folded signature.
Rebinding: giving a book a completely new binding, including resewing or reattaching the pages, attaching new endsheets and backbone linings and a new cover.
Recasing: giving a book a new cover and end-sheets without changing anything about the text block. This must have original sewing and need no repairs to the text block. No trimming will be done.
Custom Periodical:Class A binding used for periodicals only. Price includes removal of pages by bindery. May be either sewn or adhesive.
Standard Periodical:a less expensive periodical binding. These are adhesive bound only.
Therma-binding:a binding process in which a volume of loose pages or periodical issues is glued together at the spine, with or without covers.
Binding Terms
Endpapers: the leaves a binder adds to the front and end of a book to join the text block to the cover.
Gutter: the area formed by the inside or back margins of facing pages in an open book.
Leaf: one of the units into which the original sheet or half sheet of paper is folded to form part of a book; each leaf consists of two pages, one on each side, either or both of which may be blank.
Margin: the blank space around printed or written matter on a page. The four margins are referred to as: the head or top; fore-edge, outer, or outside; foot, tail, or bottom; back, inner, or inside.
Spine: the part of the binding that connects the front and back covers and conceals the back or bound edge of a book. Usually bears the title and frequently the name of the author.
Trimming: the act of making all pages of a book uniform in
size by smoothly cutting the leaves along the head, fore-edge and
foot with a guillotine.
