----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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 just older, superceded topo/military sets.] ... > 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. At the University of California's Northern Regional Library Facility (located about 5 miles from the Berkeley Campus, maps are stored vertically in Ulrich Plan Files. Folded maps are stored in pamphlet boxes. > > 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? Each (including a duplicate copy of the index map--one is in the storage facility and one is kept on campus in the map collection) sheet is barcoded. The thought was that NRLF wanted to be able to circulating things to patrons (for items OKd for circulation by the map collection) without a lot of fooling around. Berkeley has stored about 13,000 sheets so far. Phil Hoehn Earth Sciences & Map Library Univ. of California, Berkeley [log in to unmask] ... > Alice Hudson > Map Division, NYPL