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Hi, Amanda,
I am the new librarian at the Denver Art Museum. Until two years ago,
there were only department collections in the curator's offices. There
has been a retired volunteer librarian who has staffed the library
part-time since it was centralized. At that time, curators were given
keys to the library. It seems to work well - we are only open to the
public by appointment. Libraries will always have loss - I was a
medical librarian for 18 years and we had keypad access to the hospital
library - each doctor had his/her own code, but we still had missing
books, etc. If you have the money there is a good keypad system for
under $1,000.
Nancy Simon, Director
Denver Art Museum Library
303-640-1613 (v)
303-640-5627 (f)
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>I am the Librarian at a one-person library at the Museum of
>Contemporary Art, Chicago. The Library is open to users only when I,
>or the Photo Archivist who shares the library space, are here in the
>building. Several museum staff members have inquired about use of the
>Library when no library staff is available. This requires that
>security let them in to use the Library unattended. Does anyone have
>any suggestions for how this kind of situation has been handled at
>similar institutions? Thank you.
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>Amanda M. Kaiser
>Librarian
>Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
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