-------- Original Message -------- Subject: vertical map cases Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:22:14 -0700 From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Do any of you in map-land have suggestions as to how to track your maps shelved in vertical map cases? We have a printed paper on the inside lid with each folder numbered and a space to label the range of the maps inside each folder. You can really only have about 40 map sheets per folder for a working collection, or they get too crammed. So we write the number of map sheets next to the range, and then keep a file empty every so often in case we need to shift. But over time, it is a laborious process to cross out the number, and add or subtract as the collection changes., especially if you receive a new collection. We shelve alphabetically for some maps, and by call # for others. I was just wondering what you all do, and if there is an easier way. Not being a map librarian, I am certainly not an expert, but I have somehow evolved into being the map person! Debbi Debra McCracken Library Technician I Research and Information Assistant Lied Library 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 457039 Las Vegas, NV 89154-7039 (702) 895-2186 [log in to unmask]