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Subject: Re: trim or fold?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:57:33 -0400
From: Matt Knutzen <[log in to unmask]>
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I'm in the folding camp, if only for the fact that we've been folding
for many decades already. One advantage is they can fit in 1/2 size
folders, which end up double deep, but can fit in a drawer side by
side... but if you can avoid the crease. We all know what happens to
folds over time.
Matt
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Subject: Re: trim or fold?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:37:40 -0700 (PDT)
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I'm with the trimmers.
Julie
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Subject: Re: trim or fold?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:05:08 -0400
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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.
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Subject: RE: trim or fold?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:48:29 -0500
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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
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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)
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Subject: trim or fold?
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Subject: trim or fold?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:44:07 -0700
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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?
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Map & Imagery Laboratory
Davidson Library
UC Santa Barbara
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