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Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. (OCLC #1751828)

This serial which started in 1891 (found on the shelf like this) appears too brittle to bind (early volumes at least fail the double fold test), which may explain why somebody made these little paper separators to label and “bind” groups of volumes together on the shelf. Which may be fine, as long as nobody touches them! These volumes may need some kind of box or other more stable support, a decision that will be made in binding/labeling, downstream from cataloging.

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Книга памяти / [издана комитетом в составе: Норы Левин] [and others] ; [edited by Joseph Vinokurov, Shimon Kipnis, Nora Levin]. (OCLC #745076463)

Picking up this book, I was reminded of last year’s weird dos-à-dos book with Uzbek from left-to-right, and Arabic from right-to-left. This one has Russian from left-to-right followed by English from left-to-right, with Yiddish from right-to-left.

Is it still a dos-à-dos or tête-bêche if it has a third book sandwiched in between?

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Ўқиш китоби : эски ўзбек ёзуви намуналари, олий ўқув юртлари тил ва адабиёт факультеті студентлари учун кўлланма / тузувчилар: Т. Чермуҳамедов, Ф. Абдуллаев, П. Халилов.(OCLC #932769588)

This volume contains two books bound back-to-back, but as one is in Uzbek (which reads left-to-right) and the other is in Arabic (which reads right-to-left), they each get to have their front cover.

I’ve described this as dos-à-dos binding (“back-to-back”) in a note, which may not be precise, as such books typically have alphabets that read the same direction, so require a third board as a shared back-cover between them, and end up with more of a Z shape.

In structure, this is also similar to a tête-bêche binding (“head-to-tail”), which has two front covers, but has one volume flipped 180 degrees to accomplish this. As these two books really are back-to-back (and because tête-bêche binding is sometimes also called “dos-à-dos”), that term seemed more accurate/clear:

    500 __ ǂa Dos-a-dos.
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The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres / by Richard Hakluyt. (OCLC #6737)

This volume looks fine from the outside, but its text block is upside down! Not really a problem, you just have to flip it over to read it.

We’re barcoding and labeling it as usual, and I wrote the call number on the back of the actual title page (as I also do for books in right-to-left reading languages like Japanese). I mentioned the oddity in a note:

590 __ ǂa Young Library copy of volume 11 bound upside-down.
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Cults of America / by Maurice Beam. (OCLC #5796766)

Vinabind is a binding process where the paperback cover (and any stickers or labels on it) is laminated and then the book is re-bound with that cover. RDA 3.22.1.3 on Making Notes on Item-Specific Carrier Characteristics says to “make a note about carrier characteristics of the specific item being described if considered important for identification or selection.”

This volume is not an early printed resource (which have different rules in RDA) and this did not seem like an important enough feature to record, so I did not mention it even in our local copy. In OCLC, local binding does not generally justify a new record, though one record (and only one that I can find!) does mention it.