A record sleeve is the outer covering of a vinyl record. Alternative terms are dust sleeve, album liner and liner.

LP in an antistatic Record Dust Sleeve
LP in an antistatic Record Dust Sleeve

The term is also used to denominate the outermost cardboard covering of a record, i.e. the record jacket or album jacket.

The record jacket is extensively used to design and market a recording, as well as to additionally display general information on the record as artist name, titles list, title length etc. if no opening presents a readable label.

The terms liner notes, sleeve notes are used to refer to this label, jacket information.

Sleeves were originally printed on simple cardboard. British manufacturers Garrod and Lofthouse patented a "wrap around" sleeve design commonly seen on LPs in the 1960s.[1]

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  1. ^ "Gramophone Record Sleeves Patent 943895". 11 December 1963. Retrieved 13 October 2015.