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> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 12:03:10 -0500
> From: JEAN LAUDER - ACCESS SERVICES / INFORMATION SERVICES LIBRARIAN
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> To: Multiple recipients of list CIRCPLUS
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> Subject: Circulating Maps
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> Our maps department has just informed us that maps will be circulating next
> year.  I forsee a few problems with this, and I'd love to hear from other
> libraries who circulate maps to see how they handle them.  Some of the
> problems we have to deal with are:
>
>         1) Desensatizing the tattle-tape (our "zapper" is designed for
>            books)
>         2) the awkardness of finding the barcode and rolling them up
>         3) where to stamp the due date
>         4) how do we store the 50 tubes we will keep to put them in
>         5) where will we put them when they are returned so they won't
>            get damaged before being returned to the shelves (they need
>            to be flat)
>         6) how will they be returned (they don't fit in the book drop)
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> We are doing some renovations this summer and as part of it we hope for a new
> Circ desk, so we have the opportunity to get some special features built in.
>
> Does anyone else circulate maps?  Have you run across problems we have not
> thought of?
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> Appreciate your help,
>
> Jean
> Access Services Librarian, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.
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