OS should not be allowed to assume that this is only a problem for legal
deposit libraries!
Bob Parry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carlucci, April" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: OS flat maps
> Dear Dr Oliver
>
> I should not like to say that there was a proposal by OS to discontinue
> issuing the maps in flat paper versions to the legal deposit libraries. I
> should prefer to say OS informed us that such decision had been made for
> business reasons. Members of BRICMICS requested OS reconsider their
> position, for the many obvious reasons of which you will already be aware
> (particularly, the fact that maps originally issued flat will remain in
tact
> longer than those originally issued folded). As we are aware, libraries
and
> researchers work to a slightly different definition of "longer" than do
map
> publishers. The matter is still in negotiation with OS, thus it would be
> inappropriate for me to make any comments, such as the gargantuan task the
> national mapping agency seems to think it would be to pull six copies of
the
> map off the printer before they move on to the folding machine.
>
> As to what might happen if libraries are supplied only with the "folded in
> covers" version, I would suggest that cutting the covers off would not be
an
> option generally acceptable to libraries, as that would be both mutilation
> of the item as issued, and some people have been known to want to see the
> covers as well. However, storing the map folded in its cover means the
> stresses at the folds and especially the corners will sooner than later
tear
> the map; storing them flat with the covers still attached attracts the
> likelihood of tearing the map off the cover inadvertantly.
>
> So, nobody's happy.
>
> These are just my opinions and do not represent the position of the
British
> Library or of reasonable people everywhere.
>
> Regards
> April
> April Carlucci
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of [log in to unmask]
> Sent: 15 March 2005 12:33
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: OS flat maps
>
> Richard (et al.):
>
> I'm sure that another member of BRICMICS will speedily reassure you that
it
> has been brought up as a matter of concern (such as you rightly express),
> and April ('for it is she'[?]) will prepare an edited version of the
> discussion from her Secret[ary] Minutes.
>
> Francis
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> http://www.rgs.org [see 'Collections' - including some online catalogues]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Oliver [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 15 March 2005 11:04
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: OS flat maps
>
> The Editorial Effusion on page 3 of the latest Cartographiti refers to
> a proposal by OS to discontinue issuing its standard
> small-scale publications in paper-flat form. I am very surprised to
> have seen no mention of this on this discussion list, as I should have
> thought there were considerable implications for map libraries, who
> have 'geared themselves up' round flat maps, and who would be faced
> either with investing in new cabinets, and doing the flattening and
> cutting off the covers themselves: a time-consuming and wasteful
> proceeding.
>
> Or is the problem being addressed? We ought to be told!
>
> Richard Oliver
>
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> Richard Oliver, B.A., D.Phil., F.B.Cart.S.,
> School of Geography & Archaeology
> University of Exeter
> Exeter, EX4 4RJ
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