With over 25 years’ experience supplying books to school libraries, we are here to help with any of your book jacketing and library servicing needs. The benefits of library servicing are three-fold (excuse the pun):
- Saving you time as your books are shelf-ready upon delivery
- Saving you money in the long term as the shelf-life of your collection improves dramatically
- Improving your cataloguing and bibliographic data for your users
Servicing that’s shelf-ready
Whether you need your entire order fitted with protective jackets or something more custom for your library, we are happy to fulfill your requirements to your specifications. You’ll receive your order shelf-ready right out of the box. If the service you need is not listed below, or you would like further information about our school library services, please phone or email us with your requirements and queries.
A Note About Plastic Jackets and the Environment
The paperback book jackets we supply and fit are made of polypropylene, which can be recycled up to 7 times by our book jacket suppliers and even recycled further after that by the plastics industry.
Besides offering fitted plastic and laminated jackets on a comprehensive range of book types and sizes we also fit:
Barcodes
Your library system barcodes fitted as per your instructions
Spine Labels
Fiction and dewey spine labels. We also fit colour-coded labels to integrate with your reading scheme classification
Security Tags
We fit standard 3M security tags or your own system tags on supply
Date Labels and Ownership Stamps
Books fitted with generic or your own date labels and stamped to your individual requirements
AR Book Labels
We fit Accelerated Reader book labels and any other colour-coding as required, for integration into your existing system
Book Servicing and Prices
Fitted Book Jackets
Text books
Paperback Jackets up to 216mm in height 25p
Paperback Jackets over 216mm in height 35p
Reading Schemes
Paperback Jackets 50p
Library books
Paperback Jackets up to 216mm in height 25p
Paperback Jackets over 216mm in height 35p
Hardback books
Dust covers – all sizes 40p
Landscape or square books
Paperback Jackets 50p
Unfitted Book Jackets
Text books
Plastic jackets up to 216mm in height 20p
Plastic jackets over 216mm in height 30p
Library books
Plastic jackets up to 216mm in height 20p
Plastic jackets over 216mm in height 30p
If ordered without purchasing books carriage
will be charged on top
Kapco-style Laminated Jackets
Small (average paperback)
Standard Thickness 178-216mm in height 45p
Slightly thinner 178-216mm in height 35p
Medium (larger paperback) 60p
Large (text or picture book) 90p
Big Book £2.50
Other Services (per item)
First Item Charge 10p per book
Barcoding 5p
Date labels 5p
Clear protective labels for Dewey/Spine 5p
Ownership stamp 5p
Tattle Tape fitting only 5p
Tattle Tapes supply and fit 10p
Book Band labels 10p
Dewey Coding 10p
Spine labels 10p
AR Checking & labels 20p
Stationery provided at cost