Collection Security Summer School 2017
Organized by: CERL Security Network Working Group
Speaker(s): Jacqueline Lambert,Kristian Jensen,Liedewij Lamers,Marian Lefferts,Martin Finkelnberg,Tanja de Boer,Theo Vermeulen,Wim Tromp
The Security Network welcomed 22 participants to a summer school on Security issues. Curators and security officers from libraries and archives spent two and a half days at a course where we shared knowledge on topics like collection security, reading the behaviour of your readers, legal aspects, national and international collaboration, what to do after a theft, embedding security in the wider organisation, and digital security.
The aim was that this summer school would create a network of security officers and curators who work together on best practices, who alert each other to potential thieves or stolen books on the market, and who generally support each other in security matters.
The Workshop was led by Theo Vermeulen (formerly of the KB The Hague, now retired), Kristian Jensen (British Library), Jacqueline Lambert (KB Brussels), and other invited speakers.
Useful information
- Scales: you can check this website
- Wim Tromp has shared KB The Hague guidelines for using the scales
- Greger Bergvall has rescued the Security Survey as a blank form, so that you may share it with your colleagues.
Programme
– 13:00: Welcome and all participants introduce themselves – Marian Lefferts
– 13:30: Theo Vermeulen: Results of the survey that participants of the Summer school sent in
– 14:30: Kristian Jensen, British Library: Major thefts – by staff and readers
– 15:30: Theo Vermeulen: After a theft
– 15:45: Martin Finkelnberg, Head of the Art and Antiques Crime Unit, National Police Netherlands: Art Crime, The Dutch Perspective
– 16:30: Group discussion: Own experiences with thefts?
– 17:00: Visit to the Museum Meermanno
– 18:30: Drinks reception, courtesy of the Museum Meermanno
– 9:15: Gather in the meeting room
– 9:30: Visit to the Special Collections Reading Room – KB The Hague
– 10:00: Behind the scenes Library Tour – including a visit to the stacks
– 11:00 Theo Vermeulen and Tanja de Boer: Practical Issues (including Staff responsibilities; Warehouse management; Reading room: supervision, access, procedures; Behaviour of readers; Tracking what readers borrow; Recording your collections and how to mark individual items)
– 12:00: Lunch
– 13:00: Practical issues continued
– 15:00: Tea
– 15:30: Visit to the KB Exhibition space
– 16:00: Theo Vermeulen: Security around exhibitions, in-house and when you send items out on loan
– 17:00: End
– 19:00: Dinner
– 9:15: Gather in the meeting room 9:30 Visit to the reading room of the National Archive
– 10:15: Liedewij Lamers, Programme Manager: KB Programme Digital Security
– 11:00: Wim Tromp, KB The Hague: General issues: physical safety, safety in and around the building, CCTV, safety plan and crisis management
– 12:30: Lunch
– 13:30: Jacqueline Lambert, KB Brussels: Collection Security Survey: how it was used in KB Brussels
- In June 2015 Mme Lambert wrote an article about working with the Survey in the KB Brussels. In her presentation she will reflect on the progress that was made in the last two years.
– 14:30: Theo Vermeulen: Revisiting the participants’ survey results, discuss with participants what they will now do or change in their own institutions
– 15:30: End
Presentations
- Theo Vermeulen: Results of the survey that participants of the Summer school sent in: presentation
- Theo Vermeulen: After a theft: presentation
- Martin Finkelnberg, Head of the Art and Antiques Crime Unit, National Police Netherlands: Art Crime, The Dutch Perspective: presentation
- Theo Vermeulen and Tanja de Boer: Practical Issues: presentation by Theo Vermeulen, presentation by Tanja de Boer
- Theo Vermeulen: Security around exhibitions, in-house and when you send items out on loan: presentation
- Liedewij Lamers, Programme Manager: KB Programme Digital Security: presentation
- Wim Tromp, KB The Hague: General issues: physical safety, safety in and around the building, CCTV, safety plan and crisis management: presentation
- Jacqueline Lambert, KB Brussels: Collection Security Survey: how it was used in KB Brussels: presentation
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