<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Hey all,</div><div><br></div><div>Branch manager who has found themselves in Alaska but miss Oregon too much to leave this group at least. </div><div><br></div><div>We have a huge dvd collection as well as a high shrinkage rate for materials since my branch is located in a high poverty/crime neighborhood. We have found signs don't do a lot. People go sign blind anyway. </div><div><br></div><div>We have begun doing much more walking about and ref support in the stacks during high patron times and this has helped a lot. We are also leaving behind rfid'ing our dvd cases and just stingray all the dvds. $1700 to start with is a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of all the dvds stolen in the end. Sometimes ten in a weekend. </div><div><br></div><div>David Adkins-Brown, MMLIS</div><div>Mountain View Neighborhood Library</div><div>Anchorage, AK.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S8 Active, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Esther Moberg, OLA President" <olapresident@olaweb.org> </div><div>Date: 9/28/18 9:49 AM (GMT-09:00) </div><div>To: Ted Smith <t.smith@newportlibrary.org> </div><div>Cc: libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us </div><div>Subject: Re: [Libs-Or] stolen DVDs </div><div><br></div></div><div><div dir="auto">We tag our dvds now and also put up signs about cameras on our dvd area although only half of the shelving is actually under surveillance. Esther</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:47 AM Ted Smith <<a href="mailto:t.smith@newportlibrary.org">t.smith@newportlibrary.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jenny Berg<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 28, 2018 10:46 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Libs-Or] stolen DVDs<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We moved away from security cases on our DVDs when we moved to RFID. Unfortunately, we have seen an increase in the theft of our DVDs, most of them being removed from the cases and only the DVDs leaving the library.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone had success with public signage that discourages this theft?<u></u><u></u></p>
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