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VENDORS OF BINDING SERVICES
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Contacts for Binding Personal Copies of Theses & Dissertations

Binding of Personal Copies of Theses & Dissertations

 

If you would like personal copies of your thesis or dissertation bound for yourself, your family, or your professors, you must contact binders on your own to negotiate prices, shipping and handling issues and style of binding.   While the Preservation Department cannot make recommendations or endorsements, we do keep a list of binderies that have submitted proposals within the past five years as part of the Request for Proposal process. You may wish to use this list as a starting point for contacting binderies. The three binderies listed below accept print copies. The Greensboro, NC branch of The HF Group is capable of creating print copies of an ETD. See below for more instructions.

 

POLICY:

As a unit of the University of Florida, the Binding Unit has a mandate to preserve, through commercial binding services, volumes held by the University of Florida's Smathers Libraries. The volume of work with which the Unit deals prevents it from both negotiating and managing bindery services for copies of titles not held by the Smathers Libraries.

 

Individuals seeking commercial binding services either for PERSONAL theses and dissertations or other personal collections are responsible for making their own bindery contacts and negotiating their own agreements, shipping arrangements, and method of payment.

BINDERY CONTACT LIST:

Greensboro NC, a division of The HF Group.
7609 Business Park Dr.
Greensboro, NC 27409

National Library Bindery Company of Georgia, Inc.
100 Hembree Park Drive
Roswell, GA 30076

North Manchester, IN, a division of The HF Group.
1010 N. Sycamore Street
N. Manchester, IN 46962

Those seeking more local binding services are encouraged to consult regional telephone directories.

THE LEGAL STUFF

We provide contact information only for those binderies with which we have worked or which have provided us with samples for evaluation in response to our Binding RFPs in the last five years and whose work or samples met the Library Binding Institute Standard. Binderies are added to this list strictly as a result of investigation initiated by us to meet our own needs or as a result of the RFP process. Requests-for-Proposals (RFPs) are periodically issued in accord with State of Florida procurement guidelines through the University of Florida's official postings. We do not consider and will not list binderies outside of these avenues.

This information is not a recommendation or endorsement of the binderies or of their products and services -- evaluation remains the responsibility of the individual to whom this information is provided. We heartily recommend contact with multiple binderies and exchange of letters outlining the services to be provided before individuals authorize binding.

The exclusion of a bindery from this list does not constitute, in any way, a recommendation that any other bindery not be considered. Exclusion shall not be taken as a failure of a binderies’ work or samples to meet the Library Binding Institute Standard. More inclusive contact information may be procured through:

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Those seeking more local binding services are encouraged to consult regional telephone directories.

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