Book thieves stole 70,144 books from the Brooklyn Public Library in 2012
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The article says the books were checked out and not returned, but elsewhere says the employees aren't able to watch the books due to budget cuts. What would they be watching?
Book theives have always been busy stealing books in the NY Public Library system. I think its a local thing.
Most of the book thefts from the University of Washington (Seattle) libraries are committed by faculty. They tend to steal the rare and valuable books. Of course, only faculty would know which those are. They don't even have to check them out. They just throw them out of windows.
Maybe they should have a couple days a year set aside in which they waiver any accumulated fees when books are returned....That might get some of them back.
I guess somebody decided that being 200 years late , was a bit of an embarrassment, yes....
And back to the original story.... I bet if individual Library employees knew that the cost of replacing books was going to come out of THEIR wages, the loss rate would go down, fast. A second suggestion, no body gets a library card with out a current photo ID card being shown, each time a book is taken out of a branch. And what about putting RF chips in the books like we do here in Toronto. Try to take a book out of the building, without putting it through the computer check out system, and the doors automatically lock up and a alarm sounds in side the building.
Jim B.
Toronto.
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