Conservation and preservation of cartographic materials are a challenge
chiefly because so many different media are to be found in what is
modestly termed a map room maps (flat, rolled, or folded), profiles,
sections, diagrams, views, globes, atlases, remote sensing imagery (in
many different forms, such as positives, negatives, roll film, and slides),
plastic models, and just recently, data in digital form (magnetic tape,
CD-ROM, and probably more to come). In fact, it often seems that the
map room is home to any object that depicts a geographic area or
carries cartographic information and is also awkward to handle. In the
last ten years or so, conservation has had a greatly heightened image
in the library world and, by extension, in the map library world.
Consequently, map librarians have been forced to consider conservation
far more than they did in the past, as evidenced by the appearance of
columns on preservation and conservation in the leading map library
journals, such as the Information Bulletin of the Western Association of
Map Libraries, the Newsletter of the Association of Canadian Map
Libraries, and base line, the newsletter of the American Library Association's
Map and Geography Round Table (WAML, ACML, ALA
MAGERT).
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