2 messages---what is the difference between a nice spatial graphic and a
poster??------------------------------------Johnnie
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>Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 08:40:11 -0800 (PST)
>From: Peter Stark <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: HAS THIS HAPPENED AT YOUR LIBRARY?
Jim's posting brought back to mind an incident that happened about 7 or 8
years ago. We in the MAP Library ordered a Landsat image of Idaho from an
Idaho state agency. An "on-order" note was made for our use and the
ordering information was passed on to the Acquisition Dept.
At a year-end order clean-up exercise, I noticed that the Idaho image had
been pre-paid and had been received some six months ago, but the image had
not come down to the branch. No-one in Tech Services knew what had
happened and they suggested that I order another copy.
Another errand to the Main Library that afternoon took me into the Serials
Dept., a place I rarely go, and there, in a clerk's cubicle was the Idaho
image. After some questioning, the clerk told me that the "Poster" had
come into the Serials Dept. without any record, invoice, or paperwork at
all and she assumed that it was a freebie from an Idaho state office of
tourism. It had been on her wall for about 4 months.
Yes, she thought it was a pretty poster not a piece of cartographic
information.
Peter Stark
University of Oregon
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>Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 12:22:01 -0400 (EDT)
>From: [log in to unmask] (Paige Andrew)
>Subject: Re: HAS THIS HAPPENED AT YOUR LIBRARY?
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Hello Jim!
Before I answer your query let me ask if you and June are coming to Seattle??
Now, for your question(s):
From what I've witnessed here at PSU, especially in the last year, I DO
think that maps and documents people look at map and/or map-like items
differently. However, the problem seems to be not so much with the paper
items, certainly the documents folk here have many years of experience
handling the CIA, National Forest Service, BLM, and other like maps and,
other than the sometimes simplified cataloging records created in the past,
are excellent about getting them to their new "homes" in the map collections.
Where we have had problems lately is CD-ROM items sometimes being
misinterpreted, either at the Docs. dept. level or in the process of working
their way through our Binding folk in the Technical Services Division, and
things similar to a DRG not reaching its proper destination. I sense a
frustration at your end, something along the lines of somebody thinking that
it was just fine to tape what they interpreted as a "poster" to the wall or
door. Can't say as that has happened here that I know of.
I'm wondering what other kinds of responses you'll get to your question.
Wonder how many will turn out to be humorous versus frustrating?? We'll have
to wait and see...
Paige
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>MAPS-L FOLK:
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>Both documents & map "people" in libraries receive maps. We get them is
>all formats, right? Paper/digital ...
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>QUESTION: Do non-map librarians "look" at these "things" differently?
>Has a non-map librarian "pasted/taped" a map received through GPO channels
>onto his/her office wall/window and treated IT as if it were just a poster
>from your local brewery? ( I am thinking primarily of energy consumption/
>political outcome-type maps especially)
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>What if we "map people" tore apart some book/document and taped/pasted
>this "things" onto our walls/windows. Think about it! A patron walks by
>and they have to read/use this "things" hanging on your wall/window.
>
>Jaime
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Mr. Paige G. Andrew
Maps/Nonbook Cataloger
E506 Pattee Library
Pennsylvania State University Libraries
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
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