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From a vendor's perspective, we never sell Klett-Perthes or National
Geographic (we are dealers for both) wall maps to university libraries - it
is always to a department.  Typically we deal with a professor wanting
specific titles, or someone in charge of outfitting a new lecture room, etc.
We also get requests for older editions of wall maps - a map printed between
WWI and WWII, prior to WWI, etc.  Typically these come from a history
department.   As Dave said, what is trash to you is probably someone else's
ideal teaching aid.  High schools can often use cast-off wall maps.
 
Russell Guy
Omni Resources
International Map Specialists
www.omnimap.com/catalog
 
At 10:29 AM 12/2/97 EST, you wrote:
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>LOOOOOOOONG ago (about 20 years or so), this map
>collection made the decision that wallmaps are
>a classroom tool (in the sense of an item to be
>supplied by the department, like lab manuals)
>and therefore we don't collect
>them.We turned over the last of these to the
>Curriculum Lab about 6 years ago (a few
>stragglers).
>
>Mary Larsgaard
>UCSB
>