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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:43:36 -0700 (PDT)
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For our uses we rely on tubes that were sent us containing depository
items.The triangular-folded boxes work very well for sending topo quads
off on duplicate exchanges or interdepartmental exchanges. Over the years
we've tended to hoard a collection of the tubes for circulation purposes,
with the anticipation that their availability might not go on forever...
Brian
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Johnnie Sutherland wrote:
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> Another category of supplier, in addition to mailer and packaging
> suppliers, would be art suppliers. Art suppliers in your city probably
> have tubes for art or architecture students in studio classes. Also, if
> the government documents section receives posters as a category, they may
> still be receiving some in various short lengths. Fortunately many of the
> larger maps still come in real tubes, for I find the long tubes are very
> thin on the ground around here.
>
> The prismaticly folded boxes that topo sheets and BLM quadrangles come in
> have no further use once they are opened, do they?
>
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> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Johnnie Sutherland wrote:
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> > Subject: map tube source?
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> > Here at Oregon State University, we circulate most of our maps. Lately
> > we've run terribly short of map tubes, particularly of a size for the
> > 7.5 minute topo sheets, and want to order more. Our dilemma is that
> > we've poured over all the standard (and some not-so-standard) library
> > supply house catalogs in search of a source for map tubes and the
> > closest we've come are archival boxes-which are most definitely *not*
> > what we are looking for!
> >
> > It has been so long since we've ordered anything like this that nobody
> > has any memory of where we found them before. Does anyone have a
> > favorite source to steer me toward? Should I forget the library
> > suppliers and look at suppliers of packaging and mailing materials?
> >
> > Valery King
> > Government Information Librarian
> > The Valley Library, 121 The Valley Library, Oregon State University
> > Corvallis, OR 97331
> > (541)737-7318
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> Miami University Libraries
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Documents/Maps
Central Washington University Library
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