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Subject: RE: trim or fold?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:18:26 -0400
From: Bertuca, David <[log in to unmask]>
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Trimming, along with taking better care to maintain the maps afterward
puts it back in the drawer faster and usually is all that is needed. if
tears are more extensive or it is obvious that repairs would better suit
the map, then those get repaired/encapsulated, etc.
David J. Bertuca, Map Librarian
225 Capen Hall University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-1672
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Subject: Re: trim or fold?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:05:08 -0400
From: Fry, Michael <[log in to unmask]>
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I agree with Angie. As long as you leave a little buffer to absorb the
wrinkles and tears that inevitably come with shelving and handling,
cutting off extra paper is the way to go.
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical
Society Library, UW Milwaukee <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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Subject: RE: trim or fold?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:48:29 -0500
From: Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
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If the edges got really, really damaged would you pay to have a
preservationist repair them or would you trim them off?
If you're only looking at holding onto the maps for 10-15 more years
then you're keeping them as sources of information not historic
relics.
I'd say trimming would buy you the most space and do the least
damage to
the information.
I vote trim.
Let this be a caution to catalogers - sheet size isn't everything. ;-)
Angie
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Subject: RE: trim or fold?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:42:00 +0100
From: Francis Herbet <[log in to unmask]
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Jon Jablonski:
Two obvious possibilities:-
'PRO-TRIM': If they are all indubitably identical, trim off
marginalia of
all sheets save for one as a 'reference' copy: this permits your "2
side-by-side stacks in the drawer" option.
'ANTI-TRIM': If, after "at least another 10 - 15 years", you wish to
(legally) 'free' them for donation or sale, and every sheet but one
lacks
its marginalia, takers may be few and far between (even worse if the
thinking will be to break up the seats to individual 'homes' or
purchasers)
- unless copies of the unique surviving marginalia come with the
trimmed
sheets. Of course, the internet might supply this trimmed-off info
. . .
Francis Herbert (former Curator [and trimmer (but I didn't start the
trend
at RGS!)] of multi-sheet map/chart series, Royal Geographical
Society-IBG)
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Subject: trim or fold?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:44:07 -0700
From: Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]
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Hello and happy Friday.
As you may know, we here at UC-Surf Board's Map & Imagery Lab are
about to
move 95% of what we currently have in the main library to offsite
storage.
I am attempting to re-house as much of the sheetmap collection prior
to the
move as is humanly possible.
As part of this process, weeding is absolutely necessary. Almost
80% of our
drawers have been classified as 'full' or 'stuffed.' While my
re-housing
and de-duping efforts are gaining some space, I am finding more
and more
unique materials that I want to make an effort to hold onto for at
least
another 10 - 15 years.
Here's my question: I have found pockets of the collection that are
large
sets sitting in one stack in the drawer. You know the sets:
national topo series that are 95% one size, and then 5% just wide
enough to
prevent you from making 2 side-by-side stacks in the drawer (I'm
looking at
you Instituto Geografico Nacional de Argentina). I have noticed
that almost
without exception the borders on the sheets are so large that
cutting them
off would not cause any loss of information.
So:
Do I fold these sheets in half or shave part of the borders
off?
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Jon Jablonski
Map & Imagery Laboratory
Davidson Library
UC Santa Barbara
805-893-4049 <tel:805-893-4049> library.ucsb.edu/mil
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