Hi. We are just looking at providing notebooks to patrons with the intent that they will stay in the building.  Does anyone have any experiences, good or bad, regarding various techniques to keep patrons from walking off with these notebooks?

 

We have checkpoint EM gates.  We use 3M targets.  We can’t seem to place targets on notebooks at a place where they will reliably set the gates off.  We don’t care for the solution whereby the already stolen notebook calls into a service to locate itself, such as LoJack.

 

Has anyone tried anything else?  Thanks.

 

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Jim Semmelroth

Missoula Public Library

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