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

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Imprint:Chicago : Association of College & Research Libraries, 2011.
Description:xv, 364 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Rare book libraries -- Security measures -- United States.
Libraries -- Security measures -- United States.
Archives -- Security measures -- United States.
Libraries -- Special collections.
Book thefts -- Prevention.
Archives -- Security measures.
Book thefts -- Prevention.
Libraries -- Security measures.
Libraries -- Special collections.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8463575
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Other authors / contributors:Wilkie, Everett C.
Association of College and Research Libraries.
ISBN:9780838985922 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0838985920 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780838993361 (epdf)
0838993362 (epdf)
9780838993378 (ebk.)
0838993370 (ebk.)
9780838993385 (kindle)
0838993389 (kindle)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-341) and index.
Table of 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. 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.