Rather than purchasing locking map cabinets, we purchased file cabinet locking bars and our facilities unit installed them. We then purchased pad locks that are keyed the same so it only takes one key to open
all of them.
http://www.filelockingbar.com/
Gwen Curtis
Map Collection
410C Science and Engineering Library
University of Kentucky Libraries
Lexington, KY 40506-0039
(859) 257-1853
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Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 5:01 PM
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Subject: Locking map cabinets
Hi all,
We are in the rare (and exciting!) position of being able to purchase new locking map cabinets to house our “rare” maps. I’m wondering if anyone can speak to how well their locking cabinets have held up, and which brand you have. I’ve been
looking at the
Mayline ones, but does anyone have other suggestions? We haven’t purchased map cabinets in probably 50 years, and the listserv archives don’t seem to have much on this topic after 2000, so maybe no one else has either!
Any advice is very welcome!
Thanks,
Theresa
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Theresa Quill (she/her/hers)
Social Sciences Librarian (GIS/Maps)
Herman B Wells Library, E241C
Indiana University Bloomington