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Subject: Re: Moving map cases
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:23:29 -0400
From: Stone, Howard <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


At Brown University, we placed about 20 sheets at a time in large
manila map folders and carefully hand-carried them (bending the
folders if necessary) to their new location. This worked fine for a
collection of about 1000 maps--it took about 50 trips made by a
library school intern, a student assistant, and myself.

About 20 maps were unbendable (plastic relief maps or maps mounted on
very thick cardboard), and about 60 were rolled wall maps. We
hand-carried these two or three at a time.

The map cases were moved professionally after they were empty.

Howard Stone
Map Cataloger, Brown University


On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical
Society Library,              UW Milwaukee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Subject: Moving map cases
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:48:28 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Laurence S. Creider <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [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
>
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> 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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