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My question to this solution would be: do you have to modify the book in some way? Would we want to potentially ruin a book to do that? If the solution is easil
by ericlewis 6y ago
My question to this solution would be: do you have to modify the book in some way? Would we want to potentially ruin a book to do that? If the solution is easily removable then does it help?
We should digitize as much as possible and background check the heck out of librarians it seems to me.
- jsnell 6y agoThe books are already modified by the libraries adding various ownership markings. The thieves will of course remove those markings before selling the books on, which causes far more and more obvious damage than the markings themselves. The benefit of something like RFID tags is that the thieves would need to remove the tags on-site to avoid detection, rather than at their leisure.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoOur local town library use RFID tags, eg stuck down the spine of a book. Presumably for expensive books an anti-tamper case like supermarkets use for expensive items (acrylic box with radio-tag) would interfere with opportunistic theft. IIRC or library use such boxes for DVD movies and PC Games.