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
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Telephone: 800.444.7534
Currently holds the commercial bindery services award for the George A.
Smathers Libraries.
For print copies of an ETD, go to http://www.thehfgroup.com/, click on
Short Run Hard Cover Binding on the right side of the menu bar, and
click on Thesis on Demand in the drop down menu.
National Library Bindery Company of Georgia, Inc.
100 Hembree Park Drive
Roswell, GA 30076
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Telephone: 800.422.7908
Currently holds the commercial bindery services award for the Health
Sciences Center and Legal Information Center libraries.
North Manchester, IN, a division of The HF Group.
1010 N. Sycamore Street
N. Manchester, IN 46962
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Telephone: 800.334.3628
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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The Library Binding Institute
Executive Director: Deborah Mills Nolan, CAE
4300 S. US Highway One
#203-296
Jupiter, Fl 33477
 Telephone: 561.745.6821
 FAX: 561.775.0089
 e-mail: dnolan@lbibinders.org
 Website: www.lbibinders.org
Request a list of Library Binding Institute member binderies.
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State of Florida
Dept. of General Services
Division of Purchasing - Room 613
Larson Building
200 East Gaines Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0990
 Telephone: 904.488.7821
Request contract information for Binding Services, Commercial
Binding Services, or Library Binding Services.
Those seeking more local binding services are encouraged to
consult regional telephone directories.