I have few visual skills, and the appeal of "graphic novels" is a complete mystery to me. I outgrew Comic Books more than sixty-five years ago. But I know a great deal about security. And almost everybody gets it wrong. Security has almost nothing to do with technology; it's all about behavior.
The objective needs to be to promote secure behavior and discourage non-secure behavior. No number of alarms or surveillance devices makes anything secure. Libraries need to forget about relying on surveillance cameras and alarms and focus on what people are doing when they steal. I suggest a national association begin paying thieves to tell what they're doing as they steal, how they decide what to steal and when, how they prepare to conduct the theft, all the questions that a decent researcher knows to ask.
Build a profile of the thief. Behavior-based profiling is perfectly legitimate, and profiling gets a bad rap because of racial profiling. There is no need to do race-based profiling. In fact, that can get in the way. If you look closer at the individuals you will find that they share things other than race, which are beyond legitimate to use as part of a profile. I'll be happy to volunteer my time to talk over the phone about how to get started. I just don't have the time or energy to work on something written.
You have convinced me since I began subscribing to your column that protecting the memories and history of civilizations is crucial to humankind. I'm happy to help.
Agree, on graphic novels/comic for me, but they certainly have an audiences. There are so many examples of books or pages of books taken from libraries. Most special collections have security measures but of course lots of people in and out during COVID. I will post more if I hear more. I hate when a library makes the news for something like this.
Some people like things that other people don't like. For my part -- e.g. professional sports are a complete mystery to me -- I loved comic books as a youth. The big media companies have had a decades-long heyday harvesting ideas from comic books and turning them into TV shows and movies.
MEET WIMBLEDON GREEN, THE SELF-PROCLAIMED WORLD'S GREATEST COMIC BOOK COLLECTOR WHO BROKERED THE WORLD'S BEST COMIC BOOK DEAL IN THE HISTORY OF COLLECTING....thank you for the introduction....this is a terrific link.
I have few visual skills, and the appeal of "graphic novels" is a complete mystery to me. I outgrew Comic Books more than sixty-five years ago. But I know a great deal about security. And almost everybody gets it wrong. Security has almost nothing to do with technology; it's all about behavior.
The objective needs to be to promote secure behavior and discourage non-secure behavior. No number of alarms or surveillance devices makes anything secure. Libraries need to forget about relying on surveillance cameras and alarms and focus on what people are doing when they steal. I suggest a national association begin paying thieves to tell what they're doing as they steal, how they decide what to steal and when, how they prepare to conduct the theft, all the questions that a decent researcher knows to ask.
Build a profile of the thief. Behavior-based profiling is perfectly legitimate, and profiling gets a bad rap because of racial profiling. There is no need to do race-based profiling. In fact, that can get in the way. If you look closer at the individuals you will find that they share things other than race, which are beyond legitimate to use as part of a profile. I'll be happy to volunteer my time to talk over the phone about how to get started. I just don't have the time or energy to work on something written.
You have convinced me since I began subscribing to your column that protecting the memories and history of civilizations is crucial to humankind. I'm happy to help.
Agree, on graphic novels/comic for me, but they certainly have an audiences. There are so many examples of books or pages of books taken from libraries. Most special collections have security measures but of course lots of people in and out during COVID. I will post more if I hear more. I hate when a library makes the news for something like this.
<<the appeal of "graphic novels" is a complete mystery to me>>
Hello, Old Batman from Frank Miller's THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Returns
Some people like things that other people don't like. For my part -- e.g. professional sports are a complete mystery to me -- I loved comic books as a youth. The big media companies have had a decades-long heyday harvesting ideas from comic books and turning them into TV shows and movies.
This is not intended as a criticism.
I can’t imagine you criticizing someone’s opinion. I don’t understand their appeal but I absolutely accreditation p
Accept that others do
This almost seems recursive; stealing rare comic books is an exquisitely apropos activity for a comic-book supervillain. The Joker got away.
Maybe it was this guy. https://drawnandquarterly.com/wimbledon-green
MEET WIMBLEDON GREEN, THE SELF-PROCLAIMED WORLD'S GREATEST COMIC BOOK COLLECTOR WHO BROKERED THE WORLD'S BEST COMIC BOOK DEAL IN THE HISTORY OF COLLECTING....thank you for the introduction....this is a terrific link.
I saw something about this today on the Florida Archives Society listserv- so heartbreaking!