[LM_NET] Book jackets that need to be laminated?

[Carol Van Brocklin <carolannvan@MOTIMAIL.COM>]

Good morning everyone:
      I know this may sound like a random question, but I 
couldn't find anything in the archives on it.
      How many of you still laminate the jacket covers for 
hardback books that have the same design on the cover? In 
other words, if it is just a plain cover on the hardback, 
then I have no problem covering the jacket, but what about 
some of the others?
       I am especially thinking of picture books for the 
kids where no one bothers to read the "description" inside 
anyway--they simply grab the book with the pretty cover 
and out the door they go. Do others still take the time to 
cover those jacket covers and then tape them onto the book 
or do you just shove them into a drawer somewhere and use 
them for other projects? I have no assistant, so the 
covering is all done by me. We have no laminating machine 
at the school so I use some plastic covering that I have 
purchased from Demco or someone, but now I am wondering if 
I need to bother anymore. I really don't see that they are 
"protecting" the books all that much and sometimes it just 
gets more frustrating since they have a tendency to stick 
together on the shelves in this humid climate.
        What say you oh wise ones?

Thanks!
Carol Van Brocklin
Librarian
Faith Academy-Mindanao
Davao City, Philippines
carolannvan@motimail.com

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