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Subject:        RE: STORING PAPER MAPS
Date:   Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:52:45 -0400
From:   Stone, Howard <[log in to unmask]>

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At Brown University we store maps in large acid-free folders (36 x 48
inches) that are big enough to completely cover the maps, ten maps per
folder. If the maps are of different sizes, we separate them with thin
acid-free sheets of paper (32 x 40 inches). We purchase the folders and
sheets from University Products. The folders are Item no. 701-00PDMP
(see http://www.archivalsuppliers.com/prodinfo.asp?number=701-00PDMP).
The sheets are Item no. 678-LGPD (see
http://www.archivalsuppliers.com/prodinfo.asp?number=678-LGPD&variation=
678-3240).

This provides a reasonable level of preservation. For a higher level,
each map would have to either be placed individually in its own folder,
or encapsulated in a plastic sleeve (also available from University
Products--see
http://www.archivalsuppliers.com/prodinfo.asp?number=L738).

If the map is too large to fit in the drawer, then we roll it and put it
in a protective tube.

Howard Stone, Map Cataloger
Brown University Library


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Subject:        STORING PAPER MAPS
Date:   Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:08:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Anita Oser <[log in to unmask]>
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/Hello Everyone,/
//
/I received the message below via Marie-Therese Varlamoff,
Vice-President of the French Committee of the Blue Shield (a part of the
International Federation of Library Associations IFLA).  If you have any
suggestions/recommendations/ideas that would help the people at the
Isfahan's Preservation of Cultural Heritage Center organize and store
their maps, would you please respond to Elahe Beheshti Tabar at
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>/ directly.  Thanks./
//
/Anita K. Oser, Chair/
/Geography and Map Libraries Section/
/IFLA/
//

/THIS IS THE MESSAGE:/

Greetings,
I'm writing this note on behalf of one of Iran's branches of cultural
heritage preservation center's paper document archives department.
In our center located in Isfahan, we're facing a situation which we'd
like
to discuss with you and seek your advice. Here in our paper documents
archive center, we have nearly 10'000 large sheets of paper (100 x 120
cm),
maps and documents, some of which are nearly 60 years old.  At the
moments
some of these sheets are rolled up and some are spread horizontally in
metal
box shelves. But the states which they are kept in are not satisfactory
(mostly in terms of the amount of space they take). We wish to know the
means by which paper documents are stored and preserved in your
document
archives and whether they are kept in roles or are placed in vertical
or
horizontal racks etc.  We wish to ask your kind advice on the best
means to
store paper documents and larger sheets in good conditions without
consuming
too much space.

Incase this is not your field of expertise can you kindly refer me to
the
section which I can contact for this particular matter? That would be
very
kind of you.

Thank you very much
Elahe Beheshti Tabar
Isfahan's preservation of cultural heritage center.
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