It is a good idea to check that room for anything you can't find. Please ask at the circulation desk if you've reached this point in your search. As a last resort, you may file a Search Request at the Circulation Desk. The Library staff will search for the title and will notify you when it is found. Fondren Library sends almost 10,000 volumes per year to our bindery, Heckman Bindery, Inc. , in North Manchester, Ind. There are twenty-six shipments per year, scheduled every other week.
Serials constitute the bulk of the material bound.
Serial issues are pulled from the current periodical shelves or from the stacks when a volume is complete, large enough to be bound, and old enough that there are other later issues left on the shelf. Issues may be unavailable for public use for up to eight weeks, as it takes two weeks to prepare a shipment, one month for shipment, binding, and return, and another two weeks for processing of the bound volumes after they return from the bindery. A patron looking for a particular issue of a serial may ask at the Reference Desk. If the issue is still in the building, it can be retrieved for use by the patron. If it has already been sent to the bindery, the patron can find out the due date and place a hold if desired.