1. Examine books for binding noticing condition, completeness, plates, title pages, indexes, number and condition of copies, editions and various other points noted under "Preparing for the Bindery."
2. If the book is a periodical find title page and index. A special record ought to show when these are due and which periodicals do not publish them. Arrange exactly as the book is to be bound.
3. If the book is a periodical consult file showing how previous volumes have been bound and make out a binding slip with carbon copy, making such changes as are required by changes in title, date and volume number. The binding slip should be laid in the front of the book.
4. If the book is one of a set see if other volumes have been bound.
5. For books, not periodicals, indicate lettering by underlining on the title page the first letter of each word that is to go on the back.
6. Indicate color, material, volume number, call number, etc., on a binding slip which should be laid in front of the book. If the shipment is all fiction and no call number is used it will not be necessary to make out any slip of instruction. A blanket order may be made saying that all books are to be bound in a certain way.
7. When ready to send to the bindery, remove book card or carbon copy of binding slip. Leave slips containing information for the binder in the book.
8. Pack books and send to the binder, notifying him of the date of shipment and the number of volumes sent as follows:
96 vols. to be rebound.
25 vols. of periodicals.
3 vols. to be recased.
4 vols. of corrections.
2 vols. of samples.
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(It sometimes happens that a volume of a set is going to a binder who did not bind the previous volumes. In such a case the second binder has no "rubbing" and a sample volume or a "rubbing" must be sent.)