At Naperville Public Libraries we make a plastic pocket out of sheet
protector material.  We have both single circulating copies and bound
volumes so we prefer to put them in the single copies but have also
used them in the bound volumes.  This way the reader can use the map
with the appropriate article instead of hunting for it in the
pamphlet file where it may not even be available.  Also this way the
map is seen in the context of the time it was published.  Some of
those maps have very tiny print for the date and the patron may not
know what he's looking at.

Betty Wampach, Reference/Periodicals Librarian
Naperville Public Libraries
200 West Jefferson Avenue
Naperville, IL 60540
<bwampach@lib.naperville.il.us>

Karen Bolton <bolton@MSOE.EDU> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We subscribe to National Geographic.  Frequently, issues arrive with
> nice maps in poster size, printed on both sides, not suited for binding
> in. These are quite nice, not just advertising junk, too good to toss,
> it seems.
>
> What do other libraries do with these? Catalog them separately and put
> them in a map case? I think there are too many to put in pockets on the
> bound volumes. A pamphlet file?
>
> Let me know if you have a good method.
>
> Karen Bolton
> Serials Librarian
> bolton@msoe.edu