Hello,

We’re needing to relocate our map collection to offsite storage in the next year or so, and we have some collections that are not cataloged at the item level.  Once the maps are relocated offsite, they’ll no longer be browsable by campus and public.  Have any of you had to relocate your uncataloged map collections offsite, and if so, how did you make the maps discoverable by public that aren’t cataloged individually?  We don’t have the resources to catalog/barcode every map at the item level, so are trying to learn about alternative ways to make the maps discoverable by patrons via the catalog and research guides, and by our storage staff for retrieval at the future offsite storage facility.  I have some ideas to help enable discovery, but would appreciate any ideas /suggestions from the map community. 

Best,

-Greg 

Gregory H. March

Map & Government Information Librarian  

Associate Professor

University of Tennessee

Hodges Library

Knoxville, TN 37996

865-974-3878

Research Guides – Anthropology, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Geography, Maps, Government
Tennessee Committee on Geographic Names