----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Hi Alice and all, The National Archives of Canada has a well-organized storage facility about one hour away from Ottawa. You might drop Betty Kidd ([log in to unmask]) a note as she's director of the Visual and Sound Archives Division which is responsible for the maps. They are also moving other maps into another storage facility in Quebec which is closer. Alberta |=================================================================| | Alberta Auringer Wood, Maps, Data and Media Librarian | | Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, | | CANADA A1B 3Y1. phone: 709-737-8892; fax: 709-737-2153; | | Internet: [log in to unmask] | | web pages: http://www.mun.ca/library/maps | | http://www.mun.ca/library/media | | http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~awood | |=================================================================| On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Alice Hudson wrote: > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > > Dear Maps-l-ers, > > NYPL is considering creating a remote storage facility, to which parts > of the map collection might well go. [All of our maps of WaqWaq...or > just older, superceded topo/military sets.] > > No decision has been made to actually do this, I am speculating and > planning ahead for what appears, however, to be inevitable. > > > Harvard has such a facility, but I am not sure it includes maps. If > so, David,how are they packaged for such storage and transfer back and > forth? > > This is what I am in need of knowing--has any commercial firm > developed good safe, packing, tracking facilities for large folders of > sheet maps? > > My feeling is that mapdrawers are not used in such facilities, but > industrial shelving, perhaps 30' high, on which flats or folders are > placed, and retrieved via cherry picker, etc. > > If 100,000 maps are placed in such a facility, is each sheet barcoded? > Or just individual folders, or boxes/flats containing, say 4 - 5 > folders each? > > Sorry to ask elementary questions, but, there you are. > > Please answer to the list, as the information will be useful to > others. I think? Thanks in advance for your expertise. > > Alice Hudson > Map Division, NYPL >