[PADG:1164] security/welcome desk query

[Yvonne Carignan <carignan@xxxxxxx>]

Colleagues,

I would appreciate help with the issue of staffing a security/welcome 
desk at the front door of a large academic library.  My questions include:
1)How does your library keep books from being stolen by simply walking 
out the front door? 
2)Would you share statistics about how many times book theft is 
prevented by a guard or monitor, or other related statistics?
3)Any arguments you or your colleagues have used to upgrade front door 
security.

Thanks very much,

Yvonne

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Yvonne Carignan
Head of Preservation
University of Maryland 
McKeldin Library
College Park, MD 20742

carignan@xxxxxxx
(301) 405-9343
(301) 314-9971 FAX