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Subject: Re: ID'ing stolen maps confiscated in Montana...
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 13:41:38 -0400
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There are often more clues than just ownership stamps, which often do not
appear on maps in the interiors of larger works. Matching the tears or
razor cuts from the document and the map, is one possibility, time
consuming, yes. Handwritten notations of any kind, unique to your library.
Remnants of the stamping on the page edges.
A better solution, all the libraries involved have reps sit down and
discuss how to divvy up the goods. And move on.
Alice C. Hudson
Chief, The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
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ID'ing stolen maps confiscated in Montana...
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Subject: ID'ing stolen maps confiscated in Montana...
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:08:39 -0400
From: Frank Wihbey <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear Rob and colleagues:
Though owners can't be identified right now, there is a high probability
that many are
(unknown so far) in groups from the same libraries, a finite numbers.
Invisible to us, but to dogs , with 1000 times our capacity to smell, there
should
be some distinguishable smell. I know my library has a certain smell (not
bad,
just distinct and "booky") that I sense when I first return after a long
vacation.
Further, the individual map cases and map rooms may have distinct odors
form carpeting, that can't be detected by us humans, but are obvious to
dogs.
I am not suggesting that all 10,000 should be sniffed! But if a large
enough
sample could be canine-sniffed, they would start to fall into groups.
Also it is likely that the thief would not have stolen the same map
multiple times, or at least a
low number of times, thus augmenting the uniqueness of each profile.
Then those unique combinations of stolen maps (subsets of the thefts from
any given library) should begin to give a profile that can be matched
against libraries' "missing" list,
What do you think?
Frank Wihbey
University of Maine Library
Orono, Maine
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>This topic is being discussed on multiple lists and I find Robert
>Lopresti's questions below compelling. Forwarded from GovDocs-L
>
>
>4. What should happen to the approximately 20,000 maps and other prints
>that were confiscated in Montana and have no identifying markings? (I'd
>love to hear your ideas.)
>
>Rob
>
>Rob Lopresti
>Government Information Librarian, WL Liaison for Huxley College
>Western Washington University
>360-650-3342 [log in to unmask]
>
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