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Subject: RE: National Geographic Map Supplements]
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:11:58 -0000
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David Bertuca:

For what it's worth (from this side of the pond), this Society's Map Room
would *never* encourage our Library to retain loose maps in its copies of
the 'NG'.  Apart from the obvious danger of loose maps falling out (and the
possibility of some well-meaning reader re-placing the map within the wrong
number) there is the obvious one of theft.  Less obvious is the fact that a
Library administration may not bother itself with recording these
inconvenient things called 'maps'; and only a map collection will
automatically record and care for these.  Your final paragraph is the only
good solution, in that no-one could be offended!

Sincerely (and writing from experience),
(Mr) Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG)
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Subject: National Geographic Map Supplements]

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Subject: National Geographic Map Supplements
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:49:39 -0500
From: David J. Bertuca <[log in to unmask]>
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greetings in the map libraries;

We are considering the pros and cons of separating our NG supplement maps
from the bound volumes in order to conserve them, protect them, and to
catalog them for better access. My questions are:

1. how have other collections handled this (separate or leave in issues)
2. For libraries that keep the maps with the bound volumes--how much theft
or missing maps have you discovered?

We want to catalog each map with the appropriate cross-links to the issues
and also from the magazine to the maps so that access will be maintained
for anyone needing to put the map and the articles together for study.

Thank you all.

David J. Bertuca, Map Librarian
University at Buffalo Map Collection
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