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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: roll maps
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005
From: Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]>
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Organization: UCSB Map & Imagery Lab, Library
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
What we've done here is a combination of
what several other map libraries have done.
About 20 years ago, almost all of this map library's
rolled maps - not all that many is my guess (it
was before I started working here), maybe 100 or so? -
were given to the Curriculum Lab
as a more logical home for them.
The few that were kept (e.g., a world climate map
from Perthes) were taken off the rollers
and divided into 4 sheets, a technique that -
as Alice Hudson noted - works quite
well indeed even though it causes
preservation specialists to throw up their
collective hands in horror.
From what I've seen of rolled maps
over the years, leaving them on wooden
rods and rolled up is a sure way to
make sure the maps deteriorate;
it's much better to take them off the
rods and cut them up into sheet sizes
that will fit in map cases (yes, I realize
that's a Procrustes-bed theory - problem
is, it works quite well).
At the same time, the head of the map library
worked with the main departments using
the library, getting them accustomed to
the idea of buying their own rolled maps,
since almost all of what faculty needed
rolled maps for were quarter-long classes -
and we in the library figured that's
a classroom expense, not a library-collections
expense.
So far it's worked out just fine;
we do try to keep readily available
lists of dealers in wall maps so we
can refer faculty to places to purchase
these maps.
Mary
I do read over the
Angie Cope, AGSL wrote:
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> Subject: roll maps
> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005
> From: Brendan Richard Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hi Angie,
> At Melbourne we had a cupboard of a couple of hundred wall maps retired
> from teaching depts over the years. All uncatalogued. Last year we went
> through them all, kept a selection covering Australia, its states and the
> continents, and offeed the rest o students and staff in various depts
> (geography, istory, classics, languages...). We had a pile of people
> picking them over and all but half a dozen went to good homes. We even ha
> a local high school come in, along with some of their students as
> labou to
> carry them away!
> We figure the information on most classroom wall maps is available in
> easier to use formats like atlases and flat maps, so the wall maps were
> too big and hard to store/handle/preserve. Though there re some
> beauies by
> Justes Perthes covering recent Germany history that are wonderful to see
> on a wall, especially the Nazi and Weimar periods.
> The 2-3 dozen maps we kept included some manuscript and special mounted
> old Australian maps, and these are now all catalogued with a call number
> preceded by 'roll map' so staff and students know what they are, and
> where to find them. They are kept in a staff area, stored rolled on end
> in a wheeled bin, all barcoded with a call number pencilled on one end of
> the rolled material.
> We occasionally get people wanting a wall map in particular, for use at a
> conference or in a class, so sometimes lend them out (we're a nonlending
> collection normally: nothing leaves the map area).
> So those we've kept are for such use, or for retenio of examples of such
> maps as historical artifacts in themselves.
> Our really special/rare/fragile manuscript roll maps we gave the the
> nationla nd stat libraries who can better store/preserve them and make
> them accessible to a wider audience.
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> Brendan Whyte
> ex-Uni Melbourne Asst Map Curator.
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