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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204422404576596873383476078.html?mod=googlenews_wsj 'The Case of the Disappearing Documents. One collector's love for presidential memorabilia lasted decades - and led to an indictment roiling a cloistered world.' (by Ellen Gamerman in the Wall Street Journal - 30 September 2011). The discursive piece about Barry Landau, accused of stealing American historical documents, includes the following: "Yale University clamped down on library security a few years ago after antiquities dealer E. Forbes Smiley confessed to widespread map theft on the campus and elsewhere, says Lynn Ieronimo, the head of security at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. That library has installed casino-style cameras that hover over every table in the glass-walled reading room, and the library is considering adding facial recognition software to its arsenal says Ms. Ieronimo, who adds that everyone's belongings, including her own, are searched upon departure." Tony Campbell i...@tonycampbell.info ** extract from: 'Theft News' - for the full story see the link above http://www.maphistory.info/theftnews.html
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