1. Request a Reader
2. Citations
3. Originals
4. Proofing and Printing

Step 1: Request a Reader

You can e-mail (readers@wheelockbooks.com), call (603) 643-6567, or drop by our store at 2 West Wheelock Street (the building on stilts) to initiate the process. Please tell us the department, course number, section (if applicable), professor name, course title, and the date or term by which you need the reader. If the course has more than one professor or is cross-listed between departments, please include all professor and/or course names. If all or part of the reader has been used in the past, it is helpful for us to know for which term and class it was last used.

Our standard readers include:

• Heavy paper covers (front and back) with a coil binding.
• A simple front cover that lists the department, course number, course title, professor name(s), and the term.
• A table of contents with course information at the top, the list of article names (though not full citation information) in order, and corresponding reader page numbers.
• Pagination of all text pages.
• Acquisition of copyright permission and a credits page at the end of the reader.

There are a number of options available so that you may customize your reader. If you would like to use any of these options, please let us know early in the production process.

• Dividers between selections. This is especially helpful in readers that are longer and/or have many articles. You may specify the divider color.
• Multi-volume readers. If your reader exceeds about 600 single-sided pages, then you may consider splitting the reader in two as students sometimes prefer not to have as bulky and heavy a reader.
• Custom covers. If you would like to have a cover with an image or other customized layout, please provide us with a master on 8.5 x 11 paper. We can even print color images such as photos or artwork, though it does add a bit to the cost of the reader for the students.
• Specific cover color requests. We have samples in our store if you would like to see them.
• Binding options. You may choose to use any of the following instead of the standard coil binding: fastback, comb, or 3-hole punch (packet is wrapped in shrinkwrap to keep it together).
• Custom Table of Contents. We can insert the page numbers alongside your own list of your articles. For example, we could list the reader page numbers in your syllabus or, if you would like your students to be able to see full citations for the articles, we can insert pages next to each citation.
• High resolution and color imaging. If you would like to include images or figures in your reader, we can scan those images at a higher resolution or have the print shop use color printing on those images. Printing in color adds a bit to the cost for students.

Step 2: Citations

Please provide us with a table of contents and full and complete citations either via e-mail or on paper. We use these citations to obtain copyright permissions, which can take 4-6 weeks, so please submit these as soon as they are ready. Learn more about copyright here.

We need ALL of the following information for every selection:

• Editior(s)/Translator(s)/Author(s) of book or other work from which selection is taken
• Publisher
• Book/Journal/Magazine/Newspaper title
• Chapter/Article title
• Author of Chapter/Article
• First and last page of each selection as appears in original work
• Publication year
• Volume and Number (for journal articles, magazines, multi-volume works, etc.)
• Any other relevant information (such as the url for an article appearing online, whether or not the book is out of print, if the author is a local author, etc.)

For court cases we need to know the court in which the case was heard (ex: Supreme Court of the United States), any citation numbers (ex: 123 U.S. 456, 234 L.Ed.2d 567, 345 S.Ct. 678, etc.), the full title of the case (ex: Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. instead of just "Brown v. Board"), and the year in which the case was decided.

Examples:

Book: Ovid. "Apollo and Daphne" in Metamorphoses. A.D. Melville, Ed. (Oxford University Press, 1986) pp.14-18.

Journal: Barolini, Teodolinda. "'Why Did Dante Write the Comedia?' or The Vision Thing." In Dante Studies 111 (1993): 1-8.

Step 3: Originals

Please provide us with clean single-sided copies on 8.5 x 11 paper with at least a 1/2" white border on all sides of the page. Do not use staples, which will damage our scanner. We prefer paperclips, rubber bands, or even just a stack of originals in order in an envelope or folder. Please provide us with your originals in the order in which you wish them to appear in the reader.

Once we have scanned your originals, we edit each page of each reader to clean up extra lines, blurs, and marks. Still, the quality of the reader ultimately depends on the quality of the originals you provide. Common problems with originals include:

• Missing pages
• Blurred or cut-off text where pages curl in towards spine during copying
• Text getting cut off at outer edges during copying
• Poor quality images

Step 4: Proofing and Printing

Once your proof is ready, we deliver it to your box in your department office or to any other specified location on campus. Once you have looked through your proof to check on the order of the articles, legibility, and other quality issues, please contact us at your earliest convenience so we may make any desired changes and proceed to printing copies for the students.

We want you to be completely satisfied with every aspect of every page of your reader. If there is anything we can do at any point in the reader production process to help you, please don't hesitate to contact us.