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>Date: Tue, 21 May 96 16:26:15 CST
>From: "Arlyn Sherwood" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Storing Wall Maps
We have them rolled and stored on a custom built shelving arrangement
that everyone refers to as a gun rack. It's 3 2x 4's attached
vertically to the wall about 2 feet apart from each other with pegs
sticking out at approximately 45 degree angle at the same interval (to
provide a "shelf") across the 3 boards. You can then space the "shelf"
however far you want from the next "shelf". If this doesn't make sense
verbally, I think I have a drawing of it someplace, but my artwork is
pretty bad.
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Subject: Storing Wall Maps
Author: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]> at SOS08410
Date: 4/24/96 11:19 AM
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Dear Map Librarians:
I am posting this message on behalf of our Geography Department. The
Geography Chairman would like to know how other institutions are storing
large wall maps. Currently, the department isn't using these maps as much
and they would like to store them in a more efficient way. The problem is
that some of these maps are ten feet tall.
Please send any responses to me directly.
Jerome UpChurch Conley
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>Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 17:32:08 -0400
>From: Jill Konieczko <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: map storage
>I'd appreciate it if you would send more information on M. Larsgaard's
>book (title, publisher, date).
Larsgaard, Mary L.: Map Librarianship: An Introduction. Littleton, CO:
Libraries Unlimited. 1987. (2nd edition)
>Jane Ely
>Microsoft Corporation
>Geographic Reference and Map Librarian
>
Jill Konieczko, Contract Librarian
Coastal Services Center (CSC) Library
US Department of Commerce/ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA)
2224 South Hobson Ave. Charleston, SC 29405-2413
Telephone: (803) 974-6247 Fax: (803) 974-6224
Email: library @csc.noaa.gov URL: http://www.csc.noaa.gov
*The CSC library is contract staffed and operated by Scientific and
Commercial Systems Corporation (SCSC)
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>Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 12:26:31 +0100
>From: [log in to unmask] (April Carlucci)
>Subject: Re: Map storage
Dear Jill and everyone else,
I apologize in advance if this sounds like a flame, but please DO
NOT ROLL the charts, as suggested in the response to this question!
Storing maps rolled is not a good idea from either a conservation
or usage standpoint. As any professional map librarian can tell
you, the first thing we do with the thousands of maps received from
the federal government rolled in tubes for mailing is to unroll
them!
You may or may not have to worry about keeping maps in good working
order for a long time, as we would in an historical map collection,
so the conservation questions may not be as important to you
(although a year or two of heavy use rolling and unrolling them
will give you enough other conservation problems). But then there
is the problem of getting them flat on a table for someone to look
at. May I venture to say that most map libraries do not have
cabinets with drawers big enough for most nautical charts, so you
will probably need to flatten and fold them to fit the drawers (as
few folds as possible). This may not sound very good either, but
believe me, one crease is a lot less damaging than a roll.
The book referred to is Map Librarianship, by Mary L. Larsgaard.
2nd ed. 1987, published by Libraries Unlimited in Littleton,
Colorado. I cannot suggest strongly enough that people who have
responsibility for maps in any sort of setting buy it and read it!!
By way of my resume, I have been a map librarian for almost 15
years, first at Rutgers University in New Jersey, then at the New
York Public Library and now at the British Library. In addition to
all my other duties, I have spent most of this time as the
conservation liason for the map collection. After a while, it's an
instinctive reaction to have to respond to questions like this!
Thanks for the use of the soapbox.
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