-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Re: Creative ideas for superceded map disposal]] Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:49:16 -0400 From: "Joan Goodbody" <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ All these ideas are really great and I have been waiting for someone to bring up the point that if these are depository maps, we can give them away, but if they are sold at any time, the funds are supposed to go back to GPO. My understanding from asking if we can give ours to our friends was that if they sell them the funds have to go back to GPO. We can give them away to anyone but they cannot be sold. Just bringing up a point that I was concerned about. Joan Joan Goodbody Reference/Instruction Librarian Government Documents Coordinator Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, MI 49931-1295 906-487-2698 fax: 906-487-2357 email: [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Johnnie D. Sutherland Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:40 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Creative ideas for superceded map disposal]] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Creative ideas for superceded map disposal] Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:54:53 -0400 From: "Mark A. Thomas" <[log in to unmask]> To: "'Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum'" ------------------ > -----Original Message----- > Subject: Creative ideas for superceded map disposal > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:40:22 -0400 > From: "Rhett Bailey" <[log in to unmask]> > > How, and to whom, do other libraries (especially academic-we primarily > serve a student population of 24000) give away their > nautical/aeronautial maps? We give away most of our superseded USGS 1:24,000 topographic maps and nautical and aeronautical charts to a local non-profit store called The Scrap Exchange. They sell mostly left-over industrial scraps (e.g., stuff left over from manufacturing processes) to be used for craft or decorating projects or other adaptive reuse. The stuff is popular for birthday parties and with school teachers. http://www.scrapexchange.org/ When we have a big pile of maps, I give them a call and they come by and pick them up. There is a local band called something like The Topographers, and I heard they bought a bunch of our old 1:24K topos at the Scrap Exchange to wallpaper the stage area as a backdrop for a performance. We also let library staff pick though the discards. For instance, one person who teaches bookbinding classes uses paper from discarded topos as part of her projects. And, if any patron happens to ask, I'll let them look through the discards. But, we don't have a public giveaway box, partly because we were worried about the maps getting mixed back into our collection or people confusing stacks of maps waiting to be refiled with the giveaway bin! (we have an open stacks collection). --Mark ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mark Thomas / [log in to unmask] / 919-660-5853, fax:919-684-2855 Economics, Geology, Geography Bibliographer Map and GIS Librarian / Public Documents and Maps Department 025 Perkins Library / Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0177