ABSTRACT
A Survey of Libraries in the United States, by the American Library Association, dealt with “Inventory, Insurance and Accounting in 1927. In 1927 also the Library Journal published a one-page article entitled “Frequency of Inventory.” Tangentially, the American Library Association became aware of what was occurring and began a technology project that was concerned with security measures. Ernst Weyhrauch and Mary Thurman commented upon the efficiency of such devices in “Turnstiles, Checkers and Library Security.” In that same year the American Library Association issued a Library Technology Report called a Survey of Theft Detection Systems. A significant event in the field of manuscript and library security was the appearance in 1975 of the Library Security Newsletter. The overall security problems at the New York Public Library were chronicled and commented upon by David Aikman in an article which appeared in the October 8, 1979 issue of Time magazine, entitled “In New York Reading Between the Lions.”
