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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Unless you stamp directly on the plates, this material is still vulnerable to theft. We have a "Special" collection in our FA Library which is a caged/locked area in the stacks where all vulnerable, valuable, fragile, etc. materials are placed. Unfortunately, this is the only way that you can be assured (based on my experience) that materials will not be stolen, vandalized, etc. BJ Irvine, FA Library, Indiana University On Fri, 1 Nov 1996 [log in to unmask] wrote: > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > > Dear Fellow-ARLIS members, > > Last year I posted to the list the sad news of the razoring-out of a lot > of plates from a number of volumes at our main library(my art library is > in a separate building, and most of our materials are not "antique") > We have pulled a lot of "at-risk" books with engravings in them, and are > in the process of deciding how to handle the security of these items. I > know that some places require i.d. to use the library, but that is not a > viable option here. Do any of you have advice on what you may have done to > help alleviate this threat? Do you stamp plates with an identifying mark? > Keep all such volumes in a locked room? ETC> > > I will be grateful for any input at all. Stamping sounds good to me, as we > do not keep these books for the separate value of the plates, but for the > scholarly value of the volume---but I admit to that being a fairly uneducated > opinion... > > Thanks in advance for any help.I will summarize for the list--or respond > to the list. This may be a in which quite a few may be interested. > > Anne Shankland > Bowdoin College > Brunswick, Maine 04011 >