A mild plea (and parenthetical whinge)
Apr. 25th, 2010 04:49 pmIf for some reason you have a surplus of empty full-sized CD jewelboxes, please consider donating them to your local library. You should ask them first if they really need them, but there's a good chance that they do-- at least in our local library system, an unhappy percentage of our CD jewelboxes have broken hinges and are held together with rubber bands.
Thin jewelboxes are less useful because they can't accommodate all of the inserts-- in our case, the optical barcodes are on the back insert, the RFID tag is inside it, and the cataloguing label is on the front. When the back insert is the only one left, it's possible to stick a cataloguing label onto it and cram it into the front of a thin jewelbox, but it doesn't quite fit unless partially folded over and taped in, which tends to obscure whatever information is near that margin (usually the track list).
[I seem to have become the unwilling guardian dragon of the CD collection of the library I'm volunteering at, which has been laboring under nasty budget cuts.( semi-OCD whinge )]
Thin jewelboxes are less useful because they can't accommodate all of the inserts-- in our case, the optical barcodes are on the back insert, the RFID tag is inside it, and the cataloguing label is on the front. When the back insert is the only one left, it's possible to stick a cataloguing label onto it and cram it into the front of a thin jewelbox, but it doesn't quite fit unless partially folded over and taped in, which tends to obscure whatever information is near that margin (usually the track list).
[I seem to have become the unwilling guardian dragon of the CD collection of the library I'm volunteering at, which has been laboring under nasty budget cuts.( semi-OCD whinge )]