----------------------------Original message---------------------------- "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 ------------------------------------------------------------ >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 ----------------------------------------------------- >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 > > ----------------------------Original message--------- > 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 [log in to unmask]