Word: dowler
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According to Dowler, there are no statistics on how many books are stolen from Harvard libraries each year. To get such figures, the library would have to do an expensive survey of books on the shelf and compare it to circulation records, he said...
...Dowler said the University moves most rare and expensive books from Widener Library to Houghton Library. Tighter security precautions at Houghton mean that there is less risk of theft, he said. Unlike most other libraries, Houghton rules do not allow public access to the stacks and require that books stay in the reading room...
...think [theft] is huge in terms of numbers," Dowler said. "What we have is anecdotes about particular items. For example, we know we lost some items on the occult...
...part, Dowler said that he occasionally receives long lost books from different parts of the world...
...recently got two or three cartons of books from Canada, over 100 books they had proably borrowed 20 years ago. They must have felt guilty or something," Dowler said...