Security strips

In answer to Beverly Allen's query the following quotation prove useful.
It is from the January 20, Newsday article (pp 23-26)entitled " Game of
Tags" which featured Knogo:

    " Faced with massive pilferage and the undesirability.. of keeping
    everything under lock and key, the library's [Library of Congress]
    management awarded its first electronic surveillance system to Knogo
    Inc...

The initial phase of the Library of Congress' security installation
would be a modest $121,000.  Steve Herman, the acting chief of the
library loans division, said the contract includes 150,000 tags ... and
monitor gates at 12 exits of the three buildings in the library's
Capitol Hill complex...

THE LIBRARY WILL BEGIN TAGGING BOOKS IN THE GENERAL COLLECTION.
EVENTUALLY, IT PLANS TO EXTEND PROTECTION TO EVERY COLLECTION POSSIBLE
[MY CAPS](p.25). #000#

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