[Ditter]

I was under the impression that rare and valuable books could not be checked out but could only be used in the library.

[STONEWALLS]

“I was under the impression that rare and valuable books could not be checked out but could only be used in the library.”

.....if I remember right a guy got into the University of Iowa library with a razor blade....he sliced out illustrations from rare books/manuscripts and some how smuggled them out....from there the works made it into the underground art market....it’s been a while back, but I think that when the guy was finally caught it turns out he had false IDs and he posed to be a visiting graduate student....he hit more than one library before they got him.