Abstract
This chapter discusses common sense security for museum libraries. The protection of valuable and irreplaceable rare books, manuscripts, photographs, prints, and other art materials in museum libraries is the responsibility of everyone working in these institutions. Important questions involve what type of identification should be required of patrons, what kind of information should be included on call slips, or what patrons can be allowed to bring into the reading room. The answers to these and other museum library security questions are not simple. Yet as one former archivist of the United States noted, “through collective efforts, one can make real progress in convincing the document thief that he has made a tragic error in his choice of a career.”
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