================================================ MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ================================================ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 From: 4 Maps-L members Subject: MAPS-L: Maps loan periods? 4 REPLIES BELOW -------- Message -------- Subject: RE: MAPS-L: Maps loan periods? Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 09:41:29 -0500 From: "Alexander, Claire L." <[log in to unmask]> To: "Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum" <[log in to unmask]> Here at Purdue we also match map circulation to book circulation time, 3 week loans for all categories of user. We do have several 'hot items' that we keep for library use only along with pre-1900 maps. Claire Alexander, Library Assistant Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Library & Map Room Purdue University Libraries EAS 504 W State Street West Lafayette IN 47907-2058 765-494-3264 [log in to unmask] -------- Message -------- Subject: RE: Maps loan periods? Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:04:44 -0500 From: "Coombs, James A" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum" <[log in to unmask]> We have a 2-week loan period for undergrads and 4 weeks for faculty, grads and staff. Everyone can renew online. Faculty can check out general library materials for 4 months, but I feel that if you need a map that long, you should buy your own copy. Jim Coombs Map Librarian Duane G Meyer Library Southwest Missouri State University -------- Message -------- Subject: RE: MAPS-L: Maps loan periods? Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 09:20:52 -0700 From: "Diaz, Carlos" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum" <[log in to unmask]> The Evergreen State College is setup differently than most colleges and universities because their programs are all interdisciplinary. The same professors and students stay with each other for at least two quarters. As a result, circulation of titles at the library is by quarter. You can check out a book for the entire quarter. If someone else needs it, the title can be recalled. Therefore, our maps get checked out for an entire quarter as well as our CD-ROMS/DVD-ROMS, videos, etc. The only item that doesn't get circulated are microfiche but even that I will sometimes interlibrary loan because maybe the title has more pagination than allowed for us to print and send to a library. Yes, there have been times when a topographic map has gotten lost or a nautical chart gotten wet because someone actually used it for navigation (lately I've been thinking of laminating the WA State nautical charts for that reason) but I've been able to find replacements via Needs & Offers through government documents depositories. Sometimes the patron will offer to buy it and replace it for us (it is a lot cheaper than the fine they get). Overall, though, it has worked out well for us. Carlos A. Diaz Government Documents/Maps The Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington [log in to unmask] -------- Message -------- Subject: RE: MAPS-L: Maps loan periods? Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 09:35:23 -0700 From: "Kollen, Chris" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum" <[log in to unmask]> Hi Katie: At the University of Arizona, we circulate maps for 3 weeks, whether undergraduate, graduate, faculty, community user. Pre-1940 or rare/fragile maps do not circulate (most of those maps were moved to Special Collections when we reorganized). Most of our cd's are in the regular circulating collection -- 3 weeks for undergraduates, 6 months for faculty/grad students. If a CD is in the Map Collection, such as the Atlas of Oregon they do not circulate (our books in the collection, mainly atlases do not circulate). Our globes and relief models circulate for 2 hours (assuming that people wanted to use them as part of a presentation). Chris Chris Kollen, Geography and Sociology Librarian University of Arizona Library P.O. Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 (520) 621-4869 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope, AGSL Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 7:22 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: MAPS-L: Maps loan periods? ================================================ MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ================================================ Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 From: "Kathryn Lage" Subject: Maps loan periods? Here at the University of Colorado at Boulder, we circulate most of our maps for 14 days. (Pre-1950 or rare/fragile maps do not circulate. CDs circulate for 2 days.) We are considering changing the circulation period for faculty/staff/grad students to 4 weeks. What do those of you who have circulating collections do? Thank you. Katie Katie Lage Map Librarian University of Colorado at Boulder Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences & Map Library 184 UCB Boulder, CO 80309 Phone: 303-735-4917 FAX: 303-735-4879 http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/map/ --