RBMS Security Committee
Library and Archival Security News
- Art and Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World, edited by Noah Charney, has been published (2009) by Praeger. Despite its focus on the art world, it contains two articles, one by Travis McDade and the other by Richard W. Oram and Ann Hartley, on issues relating to library, archival, and map thefts and the recovery of special collections.
- The final version of the ACRL/RBMS Guidelines Regarding Security and Theft in Special Collections is now available
- What Drives People to Steal Precious Books (Financial Times, 6 March 2009), by Tim Richardson
- Stolen Durham Library First Folio Recovered (7/11/2008)
- International Antiquarian Mapsellers Association announces the opening of the Missing and Stolen Map Database
- RBMS & MAGERT commend booksellers and mapsellers for their cooperation in assisting with the recent recoveries of stolen maps and books
Library and Archival Security Resources
Resources relating to security best practices, guidelines, and reporting of theft/missing items.
Incidents of Theft
A chronological log of theft reports in the news going back to July 1987.
Listings of Missing and Stolen Library Materials
- Books missing from the German Society of Pennsylvania [MS Word, posted 25 November 2009]
- Books missing from University of Kansas, Watson Library [MS Word, posted 6 July 2009]
- Books missing from the University of Virginia Special Collections [MS Word, posted 2 March 2009]
- Materials stolen from Domings Soares Ferreira Penna Library [MS Word, posted 15 January 2009]
- Books missing from the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple Library
- Books stolen from Northwestern University's Herskovits Library of African Studies
- Information pertaining to the maps missing from various institutions, which includes the separate listings below.
- Books missing from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
- Maps missing from Harvard University
- Maps missing from Yale's Sterling Memorial Library
- Books missing from the Maryland Historical Society
- Information about missing maps
- Two lists relating to the Blumberg thefts: 1) Books still missing; 2) Books returned to libraries that they don't think are theirs
- List of items missing from the Texas State Archives
- Information on missing books from the Royal Library of Copenhagen (Denmark)
- List of items missing from the U.S. National Archives