-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Moving map cases
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:58:19 -0500 (CDT)
From: Linda R Zellmer <[log in to unmask]>
To: Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>

Hello,

I thought I would chip in on this:

1. Sticky notes make great labels to make sure that you get the drawers
back in the same cabinet and order. Although you might also want to use
something that just slips in the drawer label as well (sometimes sticky
notes fall off).

2. If you are going to shrink wrap drawers that do not have dust covers,
you might want to get some heavy styrofoam to put on top of the maps in
the drawers (perhaps a large sheet of foam core would work). That way,
the maps don't end up sticking to the shrink wrap. Using something light
weight reduces the weight of the items to be moved. It can be pulled out
once they reach their destination and re-used.

Linda Zellmer


----- Original Message -----
From: "Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee"
<[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 7:47:00 AM
Subject: Re: Moving map cases

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Moving map cases
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:37:46 -0700
From: Virginia R Hetrick PhD <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


Katie mentioned the moving company they hired used shrink wrap
material to wrap the individual drawers.  This is what shipping
companies often use to bundle multiple boxes on a pallette, desktop
computers often come this way.  She said that she didn't know where to
find the shrink wrap material. You should be able to find a source on
the internet that sells it to moving and similar companies, probably
in semi-vast quantities.

Hope this helps.

v
--
------------------------------------------------
Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California
Email:  [log in to unmask]
"There is always hope."
My fave:  http://www.washington.edu/cambots/camera1_l.jpg
There's no place like:  34N 8' 25.40", 117W 58' 5.36"
if you can't be at:  48N 6' 59.9" 122W 59' 54.2"
------------------------------------------------