Hi Robert:
At the Art Institute of Seattle no one has a key to the library except the
librarians and the janitorial staff. We're open 78 hours/week, so that's
pretty good coverage. We use tattle tape on library materials and have a 3M
gate. The janitors are in the library after hours. No current problems. BTW,
I've only dealt with 24 hour access to the library in a former life as a
corporate librarian. Executives demanded access at all hours, but in reality
rarely followed through. I guess they just liked the concept. We did have
some "interesting" situations, though. The best one was when we discovered
that the night guards were helping themselves to library magazines to while
away the time in the wee hours. Not real smart to leave the library's
property lying around on the guard desk the next morning! A chat with their
supervisor cleared that up double quick :-) If you allow after hours access,
you'll just have to accept that things will disappear. Otherwise you'll have
to commit to living in the library and never go to the bathroom!
Cheers
Cathy Donaldson
Library director
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