Librarian Crime Wave

An ex-librarian arrested for embezzlement and another sentenced for stealing valuable prints and selling them online and to an antique store.


They present evidence of a recent librarian crime wave.


University of Georgia librarian, Robert M. \”Skeet\” Willingham, Jr., was sentenced to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay the state Board of Regents $45,000 for stealing rare and valuable library material in 1988.

In 1982, James R. Shinn of St. Louis was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for stealing more than $100,000 in rare books from college libraries around the country.


A few months ago, Benjamin Johnson, 21, of Hamden, Conn., was charged with stealing $2 million worth of rare material from Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where he had a summer job.

February 3, 2002 by Uncategorized 0

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