Student Employee, Professor’s Son, Steals $2 Million in Rare Books from Yale

The son of a Yale University professor, and summer employee of one of the University libraries has admitted to stealing items form the archives and selling them. Libraries whose collections contain rare materials are often an easy target for thieves, even though the libraries themselves take extensive precautionary measures to guard against theft. Since many libraries don\’t report the theft of materials, there is no way of knowing exactly how costly the problem really is, overall. More

December 4, 2001 by Uncategorized 0

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