Virtual Bookplates: Emerging Opportunities for Gifts & Endowments

Virtual Bookplates: Emerging Opportunities for Gifts & Endowments Steve Carrico, Jason Fleming, and Betsy Simpson University of Florida Smathers Libraries

A Technical Services team created a new workflow that radically simplifies and improves on the tradition of attaching print bookplates to gift items.
In the Fall of 2008

The Physical World is Messy
Affixing print bookplates is tedious, the gluing messy, and very labor intensive.

Print Bookplates are Hidden
Print bookplates are costly and labor-intensive to create; require acid-free paper and glue; what’s more, print bookplates are visible only with book in hand .

Tired of print bookplates?
So were we.

Instead, if you want to:
Virtual Bookplates are the Answer
Boost the speed and efficiency of workflow
Improve the access and visibility of donations
Enhance library development efforts

How? With a few simple cataloging modifications.
Bibliographic record: 796 13 Jimison, Chris, |e honoree. |5 FU A locally defined author field provides keyword access to names. Holding record: 856 42 |y Gift in honor of Chris Jimison |u http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/tools/bookplate/donor.htm?donor=Gift in honor of: Chris Jimison: Class of 2003 |x gift A customized URL creates the virtual bookplate. Detailed procedure: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/alephpro/catmet/donorguide.html

Virtual bookplates are instantly accessible from anywhere in the world.

With one click from the link in the OPAC, the Virtual Bookplate comes to life…
Gift in honor of Chris A. Jimison Class of 2003

Virtual bookplates offer Library Development Officers a whole new visually attractive product to present donors.

We have created indexes in our online catalog that enable donor searching.
Donors easily see the titles they gave

We are creating customized plates…
Donors can assist in the new designs With Color

Creating new opportunities for library development = gifts & endowments will be easier to find, visually attractive, and energize development
Donors Value Recognition

Thank you for your time, please contact us for more information on Starting your own Virtual Bookplate program
Jason Fleming (jfleming@uflib.ufl.edu)
Steve Carrico (stecarr@uflib.ufl.edu)
Betsy Simpson (betsys@uflib.ufl.edu)

Virtual Bookplates: Emerging Opportunities for Gifts & Endowments

by Jason Fleming on Jan 22, 2009

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