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Subject: Re: trim or fold?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:04:34 -0700
From: Roger Wheate <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>



As a map user with a need to scan and digitise old maps, I'd vote for
trim over fold to avoid the inevitable line and imperfect flatness
caused by folding, as well as future wear and tear on the fold area.
This assumes no information ('marginalia') in the trimming process.

Roger Wheate
GIS coordinator, UNBC


On 13-04-12 11:55 AM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library,
UW Milwaukee wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: trim or fold?
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:48:29 -0500
> From: Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Organization: American Geographical Society Library
> To: Maps-L <[log in to unmask]>
>
> 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. ;-)
>
> Angie
>
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: trim or fold?
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:42:00 +0100
> From: Francis Herbet <[log in to unmask]>
> To: 'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship'
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>
>
> Jon Jablonski:
>
> Two obvious possibilities:-
>
> 'PRO-TRIM': If they are all indubitably identical, trim off marginalia of
> all sheets save for one as a 'reference' copy: this permits your "2
> side-by-side stacks in the drawer" option.
>
> 'ANTI-TRIM': If, after "at least another 10 - 15 years", you wish to
> (legally) 'free' them for donation or sale, and every sheet but one lacks
> its marginalia, takers may be few and far between (even worse if the
> thinking will be to break up the seats to individual 'homes' or
> purchasers)
> - unless copies of the unique surviving marginalia come with the trimmed
> sheets. Of course, the internet might supply this trimmed-off info . . .
>
> Francis Herbert (former Curator [and trimmer (but I didn't start the
> trend
> at RGS!)] of multi-sheet map/chart series, Royal Geographical
> Society-IBG)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope, American
> Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
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> Subject: trim or fold?
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: trim or fold?
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:44:07 -0700
> From: Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]>
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> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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>
> Hello and happy Friday.
>
> As you may know, we here at UC-Surf Board's Map & Imagery Lab are
> about to
> move 95% of what we currently have in the main library to offsite
> storage.
> I am attempting to re-house as much of the sheetmap collection prior
> to the
> move as is humanly possible.
>
>
> As part of this process, weeding is absolutely necessary.  Almost 80%
> of our
> drawers have been classified as 'full' or 'stuffed.'  While my re-housing
> and de-duping efforts are gaining some space, I am finding more and more
> unique materials that I want to make an effort to hold onto for at least
> another 10 - 15 years.
>
> Here's my question:  I have found pockets of the collection that are
> large
> sets sitting in one stack in the drawer.  You know the sets:
> national topo series that are 95% one size, and then 5% just wide
> enough to
> prevent you from making 2 side-by-side stacks in the drawer (I'm
> looking at
> you Instituto Geografico Nacional de Argentina).  I have noticed that
> almost
> without exception the borders on the sheets are so large that cutting
> them
> off would not cause any loss of information.
>
> So:
>         Do I fold these sheets in half or shave part of the borders off?
>
> --
> Jon Jablonski
> Map & Imagery Laboratory
> Davidson Library
> UC Santa Barbara
> 805-893-4049                     library.ucsb.edu/mil