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Subject: Re: Tool for lifting maps during refiling?
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:35:35 -0500
From: Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
A pizza-oven paddle would work too - a much wider
base to give more support holding the maps up.
At 11:04 AM 11/12/2010, you wrote:
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>Subject: RE: Tool for lifting maps during refiling?
>Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:35:12 -0500
>From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
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>Thank you for describing this tool. Until this description was given, I
>was having a difficult time envisioning what tool that would apply to
>the query.
>
>The "map sword" could be a most handy tool, indeed. It could work both
>for overstuffed drawers, or in a special application for one of my
>collections. In that collection, the maps are encapsulated in Mylar, so
>that even where a drawer may not be full, the maps can be heavy on top
>of one lower in the stack. Another application that occurs to me is
>with some of the new materials on which maps are getting printed, the
>artificial papers (some plastic or plastic treated). The textures of
>some of these materials will not slide easily across the metal surface
>of a map drawer. Other maps will slide, but on the bottom of the drawer
>these maps cling quite firmly. The "sword," if it has suitably rounded
>edges, could be very nice for lifting such a sheet.
>
>I know a woodworker who could fashion such a tool. Sounds great!
>
>Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
>Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726
>Miami University Libraries
>Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
>
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>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope
>Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 8:46 AM
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>Subject: RE: Tool for lifting maps during refiling?
>Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:36:58 -0700
>From: Ken Rockwell <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
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>Long, long ago, when David Deckelbaum and I both worked in the UCLA map
>collection (198789), we had just such a tool: a "shelving stick" about
>5 cm., about 1 cm thick and longer than a ruler, deep enough to reach
>the back of the case and still stick out of the drawer; and the end of
>the "blade" tapered--if you can visualize that. It had a good handle
>shape, thicker than the blade and sort of like a sword's handle. The
>"map sword," as I called it, helped to lift the pile for easy removal or
>refilling of the maps. I don't know who created it; maybe David does.
>But after arriving at the University of Utah, I described this to our
>all-purpose handyman, Jay Mumma, and he created a good likeness of it.
>
>Only drawback: it still has its limitations as to the size of the
>map-pile we're dealing with, so for overstuffed drawers you still are
>better off taking part of the maps out before removing or reshelving.
>
>--Ken Rockwell
> Marriott Library, U of U
>
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>From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope
>Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 7:39 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Tool for lifting maps during refiling?
>
>All,
>
>Our campus ergonomics experts just visited our map collection to provide
>us with tips about how to prevent injuries. They are thinking about
>making some type of tool to help lift the top layer of maps to assist in
>pulling and refiling maps from flat map cases. I seem to recall a
>discussion somewhere of whether such a device already exists, but can't
>remember the details.
>
>Anyway, does anyone have an example of such a tool which does or does
>not work well?
>
>Kathy Stroud, Map/GIS Librarian
>Environmental Science and Policy, Soil, and Forestry Subject Specialist
>Biological/Agricultural Sciences and Map Services, Shields Library
>100 NW Quad Ave.
>Davis, CA 95616-5292
>530-752-5248
>
>______________
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>putting it in a fruit salad.
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