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Dear Ian
There are two possible options:
1. Have a special case or box made for the material and store the items
on top of your map cabinets if you use horizontal map storage.  I have
done this with a number of maps in the collection.  See WAML Bulletin
?March 1997 article which demonstrated this technique.
2.  If the maps are particularly large, roll them and store them in or
around suitable tubes or acid free boxes - as for wall maps.
Yours sincerely
Maura O'Connor
Map Curator
National Library of Australia
 
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>From:  Ian Woodward[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Wednesday 10 September 1997 5:27AM
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>Subject:       Query: solutions for oversize maps
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>        Our library has received a number of maps which exceed the size
>which can fit in our largest flat map cases (38" x 50").  Has anyone
>been able to contrive or discover a solution to such problems other than
>the purchase of larger cases (some of these maps exceed in size the
>largest cases we have been able to find on the market) or folding the
>maps??
>
>                        I. Woodward
>                        Colgate University Libraries
>