Here at St. Francis, the CD cases and their discs are on open shelves.
Our collection is primarily classical also, although most items have
been added through very generous donations rather than library
purchases. There has been no noticeable theft.
For the DVDs, on the other hand, we only
We put all our DVD is in the locked cases. A thief figured out how to break
into the cases and stole about ten DVD’s from us before we realized what was
happening. The thief took the DVD’s and put the cases back on the shelves.
Like St. Francis, we have moved to the empty cases on the
Not an academic library, but we went to unsecured access in January. Since
then, we have lost 326 titles. In the first 4 weeks, we lost over 100, but in
the last several months, it has slowed down to 5 - 10 per week, rather than 5 -
10 per day. Almost all the missing titles are feature films,
Here at the inner city (Providence) campus of the Community College of Rhode
Island we have 2700+ DVDs and videos - both documentaries and feature films. We
also have a collection of about 350 music CDs - jazz, classical, blues/folk,
and world music. All our AV materials are on open shelves. We
