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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]>
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)

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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
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
805-893-4049                     library.ucsb.edu/mil