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Subject: Re: trim or fold?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:37:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[log in to unmask]>
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I'm with the trimmers.
Julie
On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:30 PM, "Angie Cope, American Geographical Society
Library, UW Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: trim or fold?
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:05:08 -0400
> From: Fry, Michael <[log in to unmask]>
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> I agree with Angie. As long as you leave a little buffer to absorb the
> wrinkles and tears that inevitably come with shelving and handling,
> cutting off extra paper is the way to go.
>
> mf
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> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:55 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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> 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
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> Subject: RE: trim or fold?
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:42:00 +0100
> From: Francis Herbet <[log in to unmask]
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> Jon Jablonski:
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> 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)
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> -------- 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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> 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
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