Please excuse if this is inappropriate for the list; my binding question is about music scores, not serials, but I figure most of you handle scores as well in your binding units.

I don’t know if my library is thinking about cutting the binding budget, but the binding position that handles the pam binding has been cut. I’m the music cataloger and my intuition is that we spend a lot on binding music (pam binding and commercial binding, including pockets for parts, binding with stubbing, etc.). Is there a cheaper and easier way to handle scores physically to make them easy to use for playing and to preserve them, beyond the usual pam and commercial hard binding? These methods need to satisfy the music librarians, of course.

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