-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Rare Maps Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:16:52 -0700 From: "Virginia R. Hetrick" <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] Organization: You Are Not Alone Speaking as a past has been from the working in a map library and a present is now reader of old (not necessarily but sometimes rare) maps, I'd like to make a plea for non-circulation and other protection methods for maps that, in your estimation are "not current". There may be an exception for in classroom use or for display of some sort, but it is extremely frustrating to travel a long distance to use some old maps which turn out to be missing because they weren't returned from circulation. The case in point does not have a map librarian per se and the book librarian hadn't a clue, unfortunately, about the issues of circulating maps. After checking the local sources, I finally found them in a "publicly available" private collection in Colorado. If I were the owner, I would have been VERY upset about the missing maps because all of the collection had been gathered by the present owner's great grandfather on his trips throughout the west and Europe in the late 1890s and very early 1900s. Just my $0.02 worth. virginia \ / Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California 0 Voicemail: 310.471.1766 Email: [log in to unmask] Oo "There is always hope." My health site: http://www.yana.org/hetrick Site of the month: http://www.washington.edu