This issue of defaced books was raised by a student on the Library Facebook in January so we wanted to investigate.
From 7 – 19 May we are running the ‘Check it out before you check it out’ campaign.
Staff and students are being asked to take books that have been highlighted, scribbled in, annotated or underlined to the loans desks, where these details will be recorded. These books can still be borrowed.
85 per cent of books in the library are now issued and returned by machines, not people, so defaced books are not picked up as routinely as they once were. We would like to raise this issue to give us some idea as to the extent of the problem.
For more information go to http://southampton.likn.co/library/