Protecting your book covers?

Hello!

I am wondering if other church librarians use clear contact paper (or something similar) to wrap their books and protect their book covers?  Or is it common to put books into circulation without any sort of wrap?  

Our church library has wrapped each of our paperback books in contact paper before being put in the library for circulation, but I'm wondering if this is necessary going forward.  It takes a long time and the cost of contact paper is a consideration, as well.  

I am wondering if there are libraries that have not protected their paperback books, and how they have held up over the years.

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