They are taken to the Serials Technician in charge of periodical binding, who sorts them into appropriately sized volumes and prints a binding information slip using the Innopac system. The bindery picks up the boxes of issues to be bound and delivers the newly bound copies approximately every four weeks. The shipments are unpacked as soon as possible after delivery. Before they can be sent to the Circulation Department for shelving, they must be stamped, targeted, and barcoded, and the books must be checked to be certain they are properly bound and accurately labeled. Patrons may look at the Polycat checkin records of serial titles to determine whether the issues they need have been sent to the bindery.
Issues are due back approximately four weeks after the shipment date in the record.
Once volumes have been unpacked, patrons may request that individual volumes be rush processed . Bindery for Master's Theses Theses are received by the Library Order Section and sent to be microfiched. After microfiching, theses are sent to the Serials Bindery Technician. The technician prints a binding slip for each thesis and sends thesis and binding slip together to the Milford Bindery with the rest of the Library bindery shipment. As with the rest of the shipment, bound theses are returned to the library after about four weeks.