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Subject:        Re: [MAPS-L] trim or fold?
Date:   Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:41:35 -0500
From:   Susan Moore <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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This is one of the reasons catalogers measure from neat line to neat
line (or cartographic extent, whichever is larger)for the physical
description instead of the sheet size.

Susan Moore
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical
Society Library, UW Milwaukee <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

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     Subject: RE: trim or fold?
     Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:48:29 -0500
     From: Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
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     Organization: American Geographical Society Library
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     If the edges got really, really damaged would you pay to have a
     preservationist repair them or would you trim them off?

     If you're only looking at holding onto the maps for 10-15 more years
     then you're keeping them as sources of information not historic relics.
     I'd say trimming would buy you the most space and do the least
damage to
     the information.

     I vote trim.

     Let this be a caution to catalogers - sheet size isn't everything. ;-)