Guide to security considerations and practices for rare book, manuscript, and special collection libraries
By: compiled & edited by Everett C. Wilkie, Jr
Publisher: Association of College and Research Libraries
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780838985922; 9780838993361; 9780838993378; 9780838993385
Subjects: Libraries; Special collections; Book thefts; Rare book libraries; Security measures; Prevention; Archives
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Special circumstances / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr.; title: Security guards / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr.; title: Special collections reading rooms / Alvan Bregman and Margaret Tenney; title: Audit trails / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr.; title: Security and technical processing / Elaine Shiner; title: Marking rare book and manuscript materials / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr.; title: Weighing materials in rare book and manuscript libraries to prevent theft / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr.; title: Thieves : who and why / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr.; title: Legerdemain : how did they do that? / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr.; title: Dealing with a theft : before and during / Everett C. Wilkie, Jr.; title: Bringing it all back home : recovery of stolen special collections material / Richard W. Orma and Ann Hartley; title: Appendix I. Blumberg survey / Susan M. Allen ... [et al.]; title: Appendix II. Who's who / Daniel J. Slive; title: 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.