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Guide to Security Considerations and Practices for Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collection Libraries
Everett C. Wilkie Jr.
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Description for Guide to Security Considerations and Practices for Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collection Libraries
Paperback. Editor(s): Wilkie, Everett C. Num Pages: 380 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 196 x 22. Weight in Grams: 790.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
American Library Association United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780838985922
SKU
V9780838985922
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About Everett C. Wilkie Jr.
Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. is a former Chair of the ACRL Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (RBMS) Security Committee and an independent scholar. He received his PhD and ML from the University of South Carolina. He is the co-author of The French Image of America: A Chronological and Subject Bibliography of French Books Printed before 1816 Relating to the British ... Read more
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