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Subject:        Re: MAPS-L: roll maps
Date:   Mon, 05 Dec 2005
From:   Cartographics <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>




Due to restrictions in printing presses and paper sizes, the big rolled
wall maps are invariably made up from smaller printed sheets joined and
mounted on cloth - so cutting them up along the original sheet lines
should not cause too much conservationist consternation.
Richard Dean

From:  Cartographics, 49 Grange Road, Biddulph, Stoke on Trent ST8 7RY,
UK.  Out of print maps and plans, UK/worldwide.  Established 1969.
E-mail [log in to unmask]  Phone 01782-513449  Website
www.cartographics.co.uk


Angie Cope, AGSL wrote:
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> Subject:        Re: MAPS-L: roll maps
> Date:   Mon, 05 Dec 2005
> From:   Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]>
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> Organization:   UCSB Map & Imagery Lab, Library
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> What we've done here is a combination of
> what several other map libraries have done.
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> About 20 years ago, almost all of this map library's
> rolled maps - not all that many is my guess (it
> was before I started working here), maybe 100 or so? -
> were given to the Curriculum Lab
> as a more logical home for them.
> The few that were kept (e.g., a world climate map
> from Perthes) were taken off the rollers
> and divided into 4 sheets, a technique that -
> as Alice Hudson noted - works quite
> well indeed even though it causes
> preservation specialists to throw up their
> collective hands in horror.
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>> From what I've seen of rolled maps
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> over the years, leaving them on wooden
> rods and rolled up is a sure way to
> make sure the maps deteriorate;
> it's much better to take them off the
> rods and cut them up into sheet sizes
> that will fit in map cases (yes, I realize
> that's a Procrustes-bed theory - problem
> is, it works quite well).
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> At the same time, the head of the map library
> worked with the main departments using
> the library, getting them accustomed to
> the idea of buying their own rolled maps,
> since almost all of what faculty needed
> rolled maps for were quarter-long classes -
> and we in the library figured that's
> a classroom expense, not a library-collections
> expense.
> So far it's worked out just fine;
> we do try to keep readily available
> lists of dealers in wall maps so we
> can refer faculty to places to purchase
> these maps.
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> Mary
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> I do read over the
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> Angie Cope, AGSL wrote:
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