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Subject: RE: Moving map cases
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:19:08 -0400
From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


I think the shrink wrapping is good potential idea!.  We have used this
method for moving books on some large wooden trucks.  The person at our
library who was in charge of our books moving last year says the shrink
wrap will not stick to itself unless it's pulled really tight.  For it
to help protect the maps in a drawer, it does need to be pulled tight.
So you will need probably at least two people to hold each drawer, and
probably two people on either side of the two holders, passing the roll
of wrap around and toward each other.  If you can figure out a simple
way to do the wrapping, this could work.

Ken Grabach                           <[log in to unmask]>
Maps Librarian                          Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio  45056  USA


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From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope, American
Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 1:56 PM
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Subject: Re: Moving map cases

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Moving map cases
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:01:52 -0600
From: Kathryn Lage <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship'
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One option for moving the drawers with the maps in them is to
shrink-wrap them. If they aren't too heavy to lift with the maps and if
the maps aren't too fragile, this works very well to keep the maps
protected while moving them--even if you turn them sideways to get
through a doorway. We used a moving company to do this, so I'm not sure
where they purchased the shrink-wrap-like material.

-Katie

Katie Lage
Earth Sciences/Map Librarian, Acting Head Jerry Crail Johnson Earth
Sciences & Map Library Sciences Department, University Libraries
184 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
303-735-4917
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/map/

-----Original Message-----
From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 10:12 AM
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Subject: Moving map cases

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Moving map cases
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:48:28 -0600 (MDT)
From: Laurence S. Creider <[log in to unmask]>
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Some, if not most, of you will have dealt with the problem of moving map
cases.  I ask you to share your experience.

As part of a renovation project of our second floor, our Special
Collections map cases need to be moved to the first floor.  We will be
removing the drawers from the cases, moving the cases and the drawers
separately, and then reinserting the drawers into their cases.

The drawers of two of the 15-drawer units (3 5-drawer units stacked)
have no cover at the top of the drawer, although the 1 10-drawer unit does.
Drawers will have to be turned on their sides in order to make it
through doors, so unsecured maps will fall out.

How do I move the maps with minimal damage?  I assume that we will have
to remove the maps from each drawer.  How do we get those maps
downstairs when they are too broad for a book truck?  We could use large
map portfolios, but I can see where some of those might not work.

Thank you in advance for any suggestions on how to keep this out of the
disastrous experience category.

Larry

--
Laurence S. Creider
Interim Head
Archives and Special Collections Dept.
University Library
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM  88003
Work: 575-646-4756
Fax: 575-646-7477
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