ABSTRACT
Museums have been reporting thefts during the past few years, and these constitute a breakthrough in the direction of greater security and in effecting recovery of the stolen items. Security chiefs without exception are in favor of having thefts reported. They are joined in this by museum curators and by archivists and librarians. Officials have been slow to acknowledge the need for strong security in libraries and archival institutions, but that slowness is gradually disappearing. The librarians of the Comparative Zoology Museum had called in the librarian from the Houghton Library of Harvard to assist them in determining the extent of their loss. The business community has seen the value of library security. The Knogo Corporation, a maker of library security devices, appears in INC.
