[PADG:1316] Re: Lost Books: literature search

["Carli, Alice" <acarli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Out of curiosity, I put together a new table in the Access database that I use to track all the materials that I repair or replace at Sibley Music Library. It includes everything that was lost or stolen since 1998, when I started keeping comprehensive records. I've got 821 records on replaced parts, scores and books from those 8 years. If anyone is interested, I can break those down into useful categories (lost parts vs. whole items, lost vs. stolen, replacement in print with cost or by photocopy, etc.). I know to start that about 100 of those 800 items were all stolen by one person over a two-year period. 

Alice Carli
Conservator
Sibley Music Library

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-padg@xxxxxxx [mailto:owner-padg@xxxxxxx]On Behalf 
> Of Karen M
> Mokrzycki
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 11:53 AM
> To: padg@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [PADG:1312] Re: Lost Books: literature search
> 
> 
> I'm very interested in this  topic. We are just 
> fine-tuning
> the replacement procedures for our library and having done 
> that, I would like to
> also try to review trends in replacements and compare loss
> rates with other institutions to see if we have a typical 
> rate of loss or a higher one.  Some are billed books 
> (patron reported as lost and are billed) so we can
> track trends, some are missing in the stacks (without a
> periodic inventory of the entire holdings, there is no way 
> to
> track trends as finding these is dependent on someone
> selecting a title and going to the shelf.) We also have
> other categories of missing books. My main interest is
> is in reducing our annual expenditures on replacements
> through whatever means necessary - improved building 
> security,
> patron education, higher fines, etc. So I would find a
> literature review very useful right now.
> 
> Thanks
> Karen
> 
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:27:56 -0600
>   "Grant, Tyra" <tgrant@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Has anyone conducted a recent (or even not-so-recent) 
> >lit search on
> > "lost books", "book theft", library theft or associated 
> >topics?   Do you
> > know of good lists of references on the subject? 
> > Particularly good
> > sources?  Anyone out there currently pursuing this topic 
> >and interested
> > in talking or sharing ideas?  I'm beginning to dig in 
> >and so just now
> > looking at what's been done.
> > Thanks,
> > Tyra Grant
> > Head, Preservation Department
> > University of Kansas Libraries
> > 
> 
> Karen Mokrzycki
> Preservation and Collection Planning
> University Library
> University of California, Santa Cruz
> 1156 High Street
> Santa Cruz, CA 95064
> 831-459-2021
> 831-459-8206 (FAX)
> kmm@xxxxxxxx
> 
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