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

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Wilkie, Everett C.

Publisher

Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries, 2011

Language

English

ISBN

9780838985922

Series

Subject(s)

• ARCHIVES-SECURITY MEASURES-UNITED STATES
• LIBRARIES-SECURITY MEASURES-UNITED STATES
• LIBRARIES-SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
• RARE BOOK LIBRARIES-SECURITY MEASURES-UNITED STATES
• BOOK THEFTS-PREVENTION

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 323-341 . Index: p. 345-364

Abstract

The Guide to Security Considerations and Practices for Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collection Libraries is the first such book intended specifically to address security in special collection libraries. Containing nineteen chapters, the book covers such topics as background checks, reading room and general building design, technical processing, characteristics and methods of thieves, materials recovery after a theft, and security systems. While other topics are touched upon, the key focus of this volume is on the prevention of theft of rare materials. The work is supplemented by several appendices, one of which gives brief biographies of recent thieves and another of which publishes Allen s important Blumberg Survey, which she undertook after that thief s conviction. The text is supported by illustrations, a detailed index, and an extensive bibliography.
The work, compiled and edited by Everett C. Wilkie, Jr., contains contributions from Anne Marie Lane, Jeffrey Marshall, Alvan Bregman, Margaret Tenney, Elaine Shiner, Richard W. Oram, Ann Hartley, Susan M. Allen, and Daniel J. Slive, all members of the ACRL Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (RBMS) and experts in rare materials and the security of these materials within special collections.
This work is essential reading for all those concerned with special collection security, from general library administrators to rare book librarians.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

xv, 364 p.

Dimension

25 cm.

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

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. Orma 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.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	01957/17	025.82 Gui	Library - 7th Floor	Available