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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Atlante Tematico d'Italia
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:02:22 -0400
From: Beverly Presley <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship'
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Here at Clark, we had the same problem, which was discovered a couple of years ago.
Beverly Presley
Map, Geography, & Collections Librarian
Clark University
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From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 10:49 AM
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Subject: Atlante Tematico d'Italia
Wow, this is interesting. If anyone has this 1989 set of Touring Club
Italiano atlas volumes - you might want to check your shelves ...
Angie
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Subject: Re: Atlante Tematico d'Italia
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:43:36 -0400
From: Cameron Metcalf <[log in to unmask]>
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Thanks. We've got it. I am taking a look right now (varsol's at the ready).
Cameron Metcalf Bibliothèque uOttawa Library - GSG
613.562.5800 x 2721 www.biblio.uottawa.ca/gsg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CARTA-L : Canadian Map & GIS Libraries and Archives [mailto:CARTA-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Pinnell
> Sent: July 9, 2010 10:25 AM
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> Subject: Atlante Tematico d'Italia
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> Folks
> Just a warning about this atlas. It's a 4-volume set published by Touring
> Club Italiano in 1989...superb thematic maps of Italy published in four
> volumes in separate boxes.
> I was reviewing our collection of foreign atlases and noticed that the cover
> of one of the volumes in this Italian set appeared to be discoloured. When I
> removed the volume from the shelf, the box fell apart. I checked the other
> three volumes..and they are in the same poor condition. I decided I would
> have new box binders made up and after moving them to the Library office I
> noticed my hands were covered in a tar-like substance. This was the source
> of the "discolouration" on the first box i checked. Now I see a black tarry
> substance on the shelves where the atlas was located and on the table in the
> Library office and on the atlases shelved adjacent to the Italian set. I
> found the tar very difficult to remove from my hands. Please note that
> although I am referring to this substance as tar, I have no idea what it is.
> Richard
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