How are new technologies affecting institutional, staff, and patron security in libraries and archives, on theoretical and practical levels? What are the consequences for library services, intended or unintended, during and after the implementation of new technologies like robots that retrieve materials for patrons, RFID tags, or even catalogues and databases that display on cell-phones? Are there particular legal or procedural issues that should be considered when implementing them?

Defining as a  "security issue" anything that actually or potentially impedes the delivery of regular services, Library and Archival Security would welcome research papers and case studies on such topics, for an issue to be published in 2011. Library and Archival Security, now approaching its 24th volume-year, is a peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge, a division of Taylor and Francis.  For more details, please visit the journal's Web site, given below.

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Christopher Brown-Syed PhD
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Editor, Library and Archival Security http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01960075.asp

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