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Subject: RE: Folded vs. flat
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:59:11 -0400
From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Hallie, and all:
Your question is, indeed generating interesting responses. My take on this is that whatever practice you put into place, you will have exceptions. I prefer to leave folded the maps that come in attached covers, whether they are the Falk series that cannot really be handled as flat, anyway, or others, for example, Freytag & Berndt, that often have a place-name or street index attached, as well. I prefer to leave these as they are and file them in smaller filing cabinets. Other maps are more easily handled here, as well, such as the small formats of U.S. CIA maps. These are likely to get lost in the cases with the larger sheet maps. The difficulty, of course, is that there are two sequences of the same classification numbers for maps. I have handled this by using more than one location label and code, one for the smaller maps and one for the sheet maps. Again, no single solution is going to accommodate all possible variations of the ways maps are published.
Ken
Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
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Subject: Folded vs. flat
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:01:16 -0400
From: Hallie Pritchett <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum'
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Hello! I'm looking for some advice. We have a large number of folded maps
(road maps, travel maps & the like, including maps with attached covers)
that we intend to start cataloging soon. Because there are so many of them,
I'm debating the best way to store them once they're cataloged - unfold &
flatten them to put with the rest of our thematic maps or leave them folded
& file in hanging files. How do other libraries or collections handle this
issue? If you have a section of folded maps, what criteria do you use to
decide what to flatten & what to leave folded? Any information people can
provide will be helpful.
Thanks!
Hallie Pritchett
Map Librarian
University of Georgia Libraries
Athens, GA 30602
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706-542-0690 FAX: 706-583-0631
http://www.libs.uga.edu/maproom/
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