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Subject:        U. Calgary Map Thefts
Date:   Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:18:18 -0500
From:   Zellmer, Linda R <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



Hello,

         The following is from today's Library Journal Academic News
Wire. Linda Zellmer

THIEVES STEAL MAPS AND BOOKS FROM U. CALGARY LIBRARY
Staffers at the MacKimmie Library of the University of
Calgary, AB have reported about $25,000 CAD ($18,350 USD)
in thefts of rare books and damage to rare maps from which
pages have been excised. University spokeswoman Beth Frank
told the CALGARY HERALD, "If somebody steals a book, you
know that it's gone. But if you're just taking pages out of
a book or a map out of a book, you have to go through your
whole collection to see which books are intact." The map
pages are from survey and western geological map plates
dating back to the 1890s. It's unclear where the items have
been offered for sale.


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Linda Zellmer
Head, Geology Library
Geology Building, Room 601
1001 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-1405
Phone: (812) 855-2275 Fax: (812) 855-6614
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