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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: "for" dust covers
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:04:02 -0700
From: Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]>
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Organization: UCSB Map & Imagery Lab, Library
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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While dust covers do indeed protect maps
from the dust that inevitably floats into the
map drawers, even more importantly, dust
covers keep maps from cascading over the
back of each map drawer and onto the floor
underneath the map cases. Those little
metal hoods at the rear of each map drawer
are better than nothing but that's about the
best that can be said of them.

I speak with especially strong feeling on this
because I'm working in a collection where
dust covers were (gasp! choke!) *consistently*
removed from map drawers. We have continual
problems with maps being lost and with
drawers jamming from file
folders or worse yet maps oozing out the
side of the file folders.

Currently we're hunting for about 60
maps (=one folder) of our Philippine 1:50K
maps; I'm reasonably sure that they're
on the floor underneath some stack
of map cases - we moved most of the
drawers around about a year ago,
and I'll bet the maps slid on to
the floor while the drawer was in
its previous location - and no one
knows where that previous location is!

I've never seen red dust covers, just
the black ones. I can well believe that
the red ones would if wet stain the folders
and maps underneath the  dust cover.



Mary Lynette Larsgaard

Assistant Head, Map and Imagery Laboratory

Fund Manager: Geography

Co-Manager for Map and Imagery Laboratory Fund

Davidson Library

University of California

Santa Barbara CA 93106-9010

USA

805/893-4049

fax 805/893-8799

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Angie Cope, AGSL wrote:

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: For or against dust covers?
> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:14:12 -0400
> From: Weessies, Kathleen <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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> My student workers are annoyed by the black metal and vinyl dust covers
> inside the drawers.  Some have been removed and not replaced as they
> have warped or broken.  I am planning an experiment in which we will
> remove all the dust covers from 25% of the collection, and see how it
> goes over the fall semester.
>
> Does anyone have an arguement for or against dust covers?
>
> I used to have trouble with the Michigan topo maps curling up in the
> front and catching on the top of the drawer as it is opened.  But I
> don't have that problem anymore since those particular maps were put in
> acid-free posterboard-weight folders.
>
> Kathleen Weessies
> Maps/GIS Librarian
> Michigan State University
> 100 Library W308
> East Lansing, MI 48824
> (517)432-6123 x250
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