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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: For or against dust covers?
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:34:20 -0400
From: John A. Stevenson <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: University of Delaware
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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In the spring DLC meeting's Depository Library 401: Disaster Recovery
presentation, I believe that one of the speakers cautioned that some
dust covers may bleed color into the maps of they get wet and that acid
free folders were a better choice. It was also noted that red ink bleeds
when dampened while permanent black ink did not.

The PowerPoint presentations are linked from the bottom of this page:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/proceedings/05spring/contents.html



John A. Stevenson
Coordinator, Government Documents and Maps Processing Unit
University of Delaware Library

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Angie Cope, AGSL wrote:
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> 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.
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> Does anyone have an arguement for or against dust covers?
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> 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.
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> Kathleen Weessies
> Maps/GIS Librarian
> Michigan State University
> 100 Library W308
> East Lansing, MI 48824
> (517)432-6123 x250
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