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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:53:43 -0600
From: Ronald Whistance-Smith <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re:      Re: Map Copying Guidelines (fwd)

I've always been a big fan of flexibility when it comes to dealing with
clients in the map collection.  We have both a need to protect the materials
in the collection, and to serve those who use the collection.  Balancing
these two is always a problem.

Gerry Strey's solution below goes only part way in providing that balance.
Here in Edmonton, the Provincial Archives of Alberta has tackled things in a
different way, one which I think goes too far in the direction of protecting
the materials.  They now allow no copying of maps in the archives building.
If you want a copy of a map or portion thereof, no matter how large, it is
sent out to a commercial copy company and you pay commercial rates.  This
takes us back to the days before photo-copiers when copies were done
photographically.

Some blending of these two is probably the right way to go with anything
larger than the dimensions given by Gerry, as what must go to a commercial
copy house.

Ron

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From: "Johnnie Sutherland" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 6:32 AM
Subject: Re: Map Copying Guidelines (fwd)


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> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 13:18:37 -0500
> From: Gerry Strey <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Map Copying Guidelines (fwd)
>
> I haven't followed this thread, so I apologize if I end up repeating
advice already posted.  Size is the main criterion for dertermining which
maps and atlases we allow to be photocopied.  The largest map we allow is
20x30 and the largest atlase (when closed) is aobu 15x24 inches.  On the
table next  to the photocopier we've used tape to mark the two sizes--if the
map or altas doesn't fit inside the appropriate rectangle, no copying.
>
> It never ceases to amaze me what patrons are prepared to do to a map in
order to get a copy.  And so many will say in an injured tone, as they
produce a huge map, "But I only want this little part!"
>
> Gerry Strey
> Map Collection
> State Historical Society of Wisconsin
>