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          "husking" dma shipments haas been added as a trial event at
          this years' Map Library Olympics. Date and location are
          pending. LC
 
 
 
>Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 17:02:41 -0800 (PST)
>From: Kathleen Trevitt-Clark <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: DMA maps in tubes
 
 
Hi-
  We would like the answer too!  Our personaly favorite is that DMA has a
frustrated weightlifter, completely bored with continual rolling of maps
for our consumption, who has decided to make our lives interesting.
 
Sue Trevitt-clark
MAP Library
University of Oregon
 
 
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>Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:22:40 -0600 (CST)
>From: LAURA HEINZ <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: DMA maps in tubes
 
 
This has been a problem with myself and my student assistants.  Many times
we play "tug of war" as one person pulls on the tube while the other holds
onto the maps in the tube.  When I hire students I warn them about the
paper cuts between the fingers.  They're skeptical until they try to
get some of these maps out.   The triangular shaped "tubes" for the 7 1/2"
topos are easy to use and protect the maps in shipping...maybe they should
try these.
 
Laura Heinz
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
 
                   Home of the Texas Tech Red Raiders
                           and Lady Raiders
 
 
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>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 08:42 EST
>From: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: DMA maps in tubes
 
In response to this question,
 
> Date:    Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:31:26 EST
> From:    Sue Haffner <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: DMA maps in tubes
>
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> Is anyone else driven to distraction when trying
> to extricate DMA depository maps from their mailing
> tubes?  It always provides us with our daily exercise
> --wrestling with the tubes, one person holding, the
> other person trying to twist the maps out. We usually
> have to resort to pulling the tube apart (no easy
> task.  My clerk has just spent 20 minutes trying to
> cut apart a tube to free two maps.)
 
We have also peeled some tubes, but generally use rubber
finger tip guards, especially those sized for the thumb.
Has anyone tried using a full rubber glove or (better?)
device?
 
John Stevenson
University of Delaware Library
 
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