Echoing here, as I'm also a novice!

As long as you're not a government repository
<https://www.fdlp.gov/guidance/weeding-depository-collection>, and these
aren't government maps, you can do what you will with them! I found the
WAML toolbox <https://waml.org/resources/toolbox/>to be really helpful.
They have a comprehensive guide to conducting a map review, which is nice
for getting started.

I'm also weeding/shifting right now, and I've made myself a very basic
flowchart of yes/no to keep a map based on condition, relevance, and
ability to access elsewhere. Example, I found Mexican published maps of
various states in Mexico that the nearest library to me is *in *Mexico, so
I kept them. Whereas a map of Pennsylvania is not very relevant to my
researchers *and* they can also request the same map from nearby
universities through ILL.

Hope that helps!

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 6:38 AM Ross, Heather <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Amy,
>
> Welcome to the wide world of maps!!
>
> I would imagine that you are not the regional depository for government
> maps.  In that case, you can keep what you want, but would need to offer
> your maps.
>
> Many in this group have weeded their topographic maps.  Many have opted to
> only keep regionally important maps like of their state and withdraw the
> others.  All topo maps can be found online, with most revisions, so you can
> still help people find older maps.
>
> The current paper maps that you have are not the most current available
> and are probably at least 10 years old if not older by this point.
>
> At Penn State, most of our topo questions are about Pennsylvania, with
> very rare exceptions.  We have to keep ours as we have a housing agreement
> with our state regional library.  You can always interlibrary loan a
> physical copy if needed.
>
> I don't envy you your move to offsite.  I would make sure that you catalog
> records are in good shape for the ones you send or have some meaningful
> discovery system if you can't catalog them all.  You could catalog them by
> folder with good descriptions.
>
> Good luck and don't hesitate to reach out to the group if you have any
> questions.
>
> Heather Ross
> Map Specialist
> Penn State
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> Hello All -
>
> I have recently become the liaison for several departments and am taking
> care of our print map collection as part of my duties. I am a complete
> novice here.  We are planning to move most of the collection to an
> off-campus site.  This is an opportunity to weed, and I wondered if folks
> keep copies of photorevised maps.  I was thinking to just keep the most
> recent.  Is there a reason to keep the older ones?
>
> A colleague suggested this new ebook from Janet Reyes at UC Riverside:
> Conducting a Map Collection Review: A Workbook to Help You on the Journey
> as general resource.  Will be ordering soon.
>
> Cheers,
> Amy Koshoffer
> U of Cincinnati
>