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Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: Tool for lifting maps during refiling?
Date:   Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:58:24 -0800 (PST)
From:   Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To:       Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
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And, handy for the Friday afternoon library pizza parties!

Julie

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Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Assistant Director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data &
Services
Acting Head Librarian
Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
Stanford University
397 Panama Mall; MC 2211
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)725-1102

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*Sent: *Friday, November 12, 2010 8:37:58 AM
*Subject: *Re: Tool for lifting maps during refiling?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Tool for lifting maps during refiling?
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:35:35 -0500
From: Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


A pizza-oven paddle would work too - a much wider
base to give more support holding the maps up.

At 11:04 AM 11/12/2010, you wrote:
  >-------- Original Message --------
  >Subject: RE: Tool for lifting maps during refiling?
  >Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:35:12 -0500
  >From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
  >To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
<[log in to unmask]>
  >
  >
  >Thank you for describing this tool. Until this description was given, I
  >was having a difficult time envisioning what tool that would apply to
  >the query.
  >
  >The "map sword" could be a most handy tool, indeed. It could work both
  >for overstuffed drawers, or in a special application for one of my
  >collections. In that collection, the maps are encapsulated in Mylar, so
  >that even where a drawer may not be full, the maps can be heavy on top
  >of one lower in the stack. Another application that occurs to me is
  >with some of the new materials on which maps are getting printed, the
  >artificial papers (some plastic or plastic treated). The textures of
  >some of these materials will not slide easily across the metal surface
  >of a map drawer. Other maps will slide, but on the bottom of the drawer
  >these maps cling quite firmly. The "sword," if it has suitably rounded
  >edges, could be very nice for lifting such a sheet.
  >
  >I know a woodworker who could fashion such a tool. Sounds great!
  >
  >Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
  >Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726
  >Miami University Libraries
  >Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
  >
  >-----Original Message-----
  >From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
  >[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope
  >Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 8:46 AM
  >To: [log in to unmask]
  >Subject: Re: Tool for lifting maps during refiling?
  >
  >-------- Original Message --------
  >Subject: RE: Tool for lifting maps during refiling?
  >Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:36:58 -0700
  >From: Ken Rockwell <[log in to unmask]>
  >To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
<[log in to unmask]>
  >
  >
  >Long, long ago, when David Deckelbaum and I both worked in the UCLA map
  >collection (1987­89), we had just such a tool: a "shelving stick" about
  >5 cm., about 1 cm thick and longer than a ruler, deep enough to reach
  >the back of the case and still stick out of the drawer; and the end of
  >the "blade" tapered--if you can visualize that. It had a good handle
  >shape, thicker than the blade and sort of like a sword's handle. The
  >"map sword," as I called it, helped to lift the pile for easy removal or
  >refilling of the maps. I don't know who created it; maybe David does.
  >But after arriving at the University of Utah, I described this to our
  >all-purpose handyman, Jay Mumma, and he created a good likeness of it.
  >
  >Only drawback: it still has its limitations as to the size of the
  >map-pile we're dealing with, so for overstuffed drawers you still are
  >better off taking part of the maps out before removing or reshelving.
  >
  >--Ken Rockwell
  > Marriott Library, U of U
  >
  >-----Original Message-----
  >From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
  >[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope
  >Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 7:39 AM
  >To: [log in to unmask]
  >Subject: Tool for lifting maps during refiling?
  >
  >All,
  >
  >Our campus ergonomics experts just visited our map collection to provide
  >us with tips about how to prevent injuries. They are thinking about
  >making some type of tool to help lift the top layer of maps to assist in
  >pulling and refiling maps from flat map cases. I seem to recall a
  >discussion somewhere of whether such a device already exists, but can't
  >remember the details.
  >
  >Anyway, does anyone have an example of such a tool which does or does
  >not work well?
  >
  >Kathy Stroud, Map/GIS Librarian
  >Environmental Science and Policy, Soil, and Forestry Subject Specialist
  >Biological/Agricultural Sciences and Map Services, Shields Library
  >100 NW Quad Ave.
  >Davis, CA 95616-5292
  >530-752-5248
  >
  >______________
  >Knowledge is understanding that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not
  >putting it in a fruit salad.


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