1st Edition
Protecting Your Collection A Handbook, Survey, & Guide for the Security of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Archives, & Works of Art
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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Here is a practical volume that focuses on the major security problems for libraries, archives, and museums. Written by a respected librarian and security consultant, Protecting Your Collection provides provides a thorough review of the procedures for protecting library, art, and archival collections against losses from theft, fire, flooding, and mutilation. Author Slade Gandert includes... Read more
Contents
The Situation
- Library Security: An Overview
- Thieves
- Book Theft
- The Ethos of Ethics
- The Lively Lawyer
- The New York Public Library
- Marking of Materials
- The Replevin Controversy
- The Good Doktor
- Lost or Stolen?
- West Point
- Mutilation
- The Value of Values
- The Forger’s Considerations
- The Investment Fallacy
- The FBI
- Design of Buildings
- Guards
- The Security Force as Peace Officers
- Surveillance
- Employee Dishonesty
- Legalized Theft
- Electronic Security
- Things That Go Buzz in the Night
- Insurance
- The Survivor
- Security and the Media
- Doors That Should Be Closed
- Bibliography
Biography
Slade Richard Gandert, Peter Gellatly
