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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 09:24:55 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
From: Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: map circulation/preservation

        At Stanford University's Branner Library we have a
variation of the Scripps Inst. of Oceanography practice:
the due date is stamped on the back of maps (just a regular
small date stamp).  If there is no place on the map for a
stamp, the patron is verbally told the due date.  While
this seems to work well from a circulation perspective, I'm
not sure it's is the best archival practice in the world.
What, for example, would Blaeu and Ortelius maps look like
today if due dates had been stamped on them for hundreds of
years?


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Philip Hoehn
Map Bibliographer
Branner Earth Sciences Library
   & Map Collections
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2210

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