A New Service For Southeastern Libraries!


A few weeks ago feedback was requested about CD/DVD resurfacers and cleaners. Thanks goes out to all that took the time to contribute their two cents! The consensus, though, was that everyone with their own collections would find this useful to have, but just couldn’t afford their own machines, therefore, did not have machines of their own. In an attempt to cut down our own need to send out for repairs of disc media, we did some research and feel we’ve come up with the perfect solution, for not only us, but you!

Effective July 1st, we will be partnering with Scott County’s Library System to provide a cost-effective alternative to all of the libraries in Southeastern. Send us your tired, your scratched, your dirty disc media and we’ll take it out to Eldridge and clean and/or resurface them for you! The charge for this, for now, is $0.50 for a resurface and $0.25 for a clean/polish. This is a preliminary price for the next few weeks, until we are more familiar with demand and the cost of supplies needed to do all of this. The charge may need to be adjusted. We’ll then send it back to you that same week. We can either invoice you along with the service each time you send media, or we can do a monthly invoicing if this will be a regular need for your library. Long term, depending on demand, we might be able to work out a regular monthly billing for you.

We think this is great for all involved, and hope that you’ll take advantage of this. If someone else in your library is the “go-to” person for collection repair, please forward this information on!


Some things to consider:

-This has been thoroughly tested and does a wonderful job with both CDs (both music and audiobook) and DVDs. Even significantly scratched or scuffed media has been brought back to new life as a result of use.

-It is not recommended (by the manufacturer) to resurface a CD or DVD more than 3 to 4 times. After extensive resurfacing, your data can become unreadable, leaving the disc useless. You will receive a note on the level of resurfacing done to your discs so that you can track how many times a disc requires repair, and at what level. (If you are interested, small labels can be made available for you to stick on the inside of cases that indicate when your media was serviced, and what was done to keep track-just ask us about them!)

-When you get complaints like “this disc didn’t work”, or the ever popular “this disc doesn’t work on my machine”, you can send it to us for rehabilitation and keep your collection intact. Look at what you pay to replace a disc – or worse, the cost of simply not having that title or media in your collection. Every viewer/listener their DVD/CD, every DVD/CD its viewer/listener!

-Good machines for cleaning/resurfacing disc media are costly – it makes more sense for us to use one unit for everyone on an as-needed basis and charge only for what you use. It saves you time, money, and replacement woes!




Call Amanda at (800) 397-0029 or Email awright@sls.lib.ia.us with any questions or to start taking advantage of this!