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Management of Library and Archival Security - From the Outside Looking In (Hardcover)
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Management of Library and Archival Security - From the Outside Looking In (Hardcover)
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Providing a substantive approach to the issue, Management of
Library and Archival Security: From the Outside Looking In gives
librarians and collection directors practical and helpful
suggestions for developing policies and procedures to minimize
theft. In addition, this text prepares you to deal with the
aftermath of a robbery or natural disaster that destroys priceless
materials. Through expert opinions and advice, Management of
Library and Archival Security will teach you how to protect and
secure invaluable collections and the finances invested in them.In
addition, Management of Library and Archival Security offers
numerous suggestions for preserving collections from environmental
hazards and natural disasters. Contributors discuss several
possible scenarios leading to the loss or destruction of library or
archive materials and offer numerous measures of protection,
including: implementing timely inventory standards, using approved
marketing practices, keeping good user records, and having
knowledge of insurance coverage making a recovery plan that deals
with the impact of a theft and how it may affect staff and the
actual workings of a department or archive knowing who to contact
after a theft, such as local enforcement agencies, federal
officials, and listing the theft on the Library Security Officer
Listserv (LSO) to alert local and national libraries and collectors
to the crime incorporating internal audits in a university setting
to prevent crime and ensure accounting and administration controls
are effective and efficient instituting a preservation program for
collections, which includes temperature control of the indoor
environment, studying the building design for weaknesses or
potential dangers, reformatting deteriorating materials, and
limiting the handling of materials making plans for the aftermath
of a disaster, such as creating methods for risk assessment,
developing collection priorities, and making rehabilitation
policies for materialsThe chapters in Management of Library and
Archival Security offer unique insight from a former F.B.I. agent
with extensive experience in library thefts, a preservation
specialist, and an archivist with extensive conservation experience
in order to provide you with all of the information you need to
safeguard library and archive collections against theft,
environmental conditions, natural disasters, and resultant
financial loss.
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