Thesaurus Binding Terms
Term Mechanical bindings
Hierarchy [Types of binding structure]
SN Use for bindings in which a device of metal, plastic, etc., holds single leaves together in a non-exchangeable manner.
NT Comb bindings
Spiral bindings
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Proposed Term: Mechanical bindings
Thesaurus: Binding Terms
Submitted by: Kate Moriarty
Term record as found in AAT (mandatory):
Mechanical bindings (components): Bindings that hold pages together by such devices as spiral wire, plastic combs, or metal rods.
Term record as found in LCSH (mandatory): X
Term record as found in GMGPC (mandatory): X
Term record as found in GSAFD (mandatory): X
Term record as found in MeSH (mandatory): X
Term record as found in MIGFG (mandatory): X
Term record as found in the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (mandatory): X
Term record as found in Webster’s 3rd New International Dictionary of the English Language (mandatory):
Mechanical binding: a binding (as for a notebook, catalog, price list) holding pages together by spiral wire, plastic combs, or metal rods.
Term as found in Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition (optional): X
Term as found in source/hierarchical displays/definitions, other sources, &c.:
Roberts, Matt T. and Don Etherington. Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descritpive Terminology. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1982 or http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt0785.html. Mechanical binding: The business of binding single leaves in a non-exchangeable form. In such a binding, leaves cannot be added, removed, or relocated in the book, as is possible in the case of a loose-leaf binding ... The forms which mechanical binding can take include spiral, coil, ring, cercla (a binding consisting of connected plastic rings), and comb.
Hierarchy: Types of binding structure
Proposed SN: Use for bindings that hold pages together by spiral wire, plastic coil, or plastic combs.
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BT: Types of binding structures
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NT: Comb bindings
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NT: Spiral bindings
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HN: Proposed 5/23/08 by Kate Moriarty to serve as a broader term for "Spiral bindings" and "Comb bindings."
Comments: This is the full term record for Mechanical bindings. There has been discussion on whether or not a full record is needed for a BT.
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AAT [Getty’s Art & Architecture Thesaurus]
GMGPC [Library of Congress’s Thesaurus for Graphic Materials]
GSAFD [Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction, Drama, etc. (2nd ed.)]
LCSH [Library of Congress’s Subject Headings]
MeSH [National Library of Medicine’s Medical Subject Headings]
MIGFG [Library of Congress’s The Moving Image Genre-form Guide]
