Guide to security considerations and practices for rare book, manuscript, and special collection libraries

Folger bibliographic ID: 264469
Folger call number: Z679.6 .G85 2011 Deck A Ref
Folger holdings ID: 350095

Contents

Why security? / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. -- General considerations / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. -- Background checks / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. with Margaret Tufts Tenney -- General building considerations / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. -- Reading room design for security / Jeffrey D. Marshall -- Access control systems / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. -- Burglar alarm systems / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. -- Closed circuit television systems / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. -- Special circumstances / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. -- Security guards / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. -- Special collections reading rooms / Alvan Bregman and Margaret Tufts Tenney -- Audit trails / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. -- Security and technical processing / Elaine Shiner -- Marking rare book and manuscript materials / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. -- Weighing materials in rare book and manuscript libraries to prevent theft / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. -- Thieves : who and why / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. -- Legerdemain : how did they do that? / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. -- Dealing with a theft : before and during / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. -- Bringing it all back home : recovery of stolen special collections material / Richard W. Oram and Ann Hartley -- Appendix I. Blumberg survey / Susan M. Allen, Nicole Davis, Kelly Jensen, and Laurel Rozema -- Appendix II. Who's who / Daniel J. Slive -- Appendix III. Guidelines. ACRL guidelines regarding security and theft in special collections ; ACRL guidelines on the selection of general collection material for transfer to special collections ; MAGERT map collection security guidelines

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-341) and index

Extended title: Guide to security considerations and practices for rare book, manuscript, and special collection libraries / compiled & edited by Everett C. Wilkie, Jr

Rare book libraries Libraries Archives Book thefts

associated with: Wilkie, Everett C
associated with: Association of College and Research Libraries