----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I wish to thank all of the people who took the time to respond. And to those from outside the United States thank you also. The knowledge of what other countries do is also helpful. Not having done a survey on the Internet before, I would like to take the time to show others what I did WRONG. So that you may avoid my mistakes and make your own "new" ones. Even after having another person read the questions, I omitted some needed definitions and an additional needed category. Below wherever you see *** I will insert my comments/corrections. *** Since the intent was to take e-mail messages and convert to Word Processing for tabulation the length of the lines should be shorter with the answers under the questions 1) Do you circulate any of your maps? YES ____ NO ____ 1) Do you circulate any of your maps? YES _____ NO _____ *** This didn't seem to cause any trouble. 2) Is your collection in its' own Library YES _____ NO _____ (Are you a room or a stand alone?) *** This should have been three categories instead of YES or NO. As lockable areas/rooms didn't fit too well. Own Library____ Lockable room or floor _____ non-lockable area ____ 3) What is the approximate size of your collection? (pieces or sheets) <25K _____ 25-50K _____ 50-100K _____ > 100K_____ 4) Of your collection do you circulate? PART ____ ALMOST ALL_____ ALL _____ (> 80%) 5) Do you circulate any maps by Hand? ALL _____ SOME _____ *** By hand should have been defined as without the use of a computer. 6) Do you have automated check out for maps? YES _____ NO _____ *** Again a definition of using a computer so that "self-checkout", "on the fly", an online database with circulation module would be the YES answer. I will be very interested to see if a pattern exist and how many map collections are still checking out by hand. Thank You again for your assistance. *** I am still tabulating the results. We had a "Computer Crash." Thank You one and all Peter Gratton [log in to unmask] Government Publications Dept Library Library Assistant IV Maps & Collection Development Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 457013 Las Vegas NV 89154-7013 I have all the answers. I just don't know, what questions they go to.