Disappearing ink : the insider, the FBI, and the looting of the Kenyon College Library Travis McDade

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDade, Travis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book thefts--Ohio--Gambier.

Book thefts.

Employee theft.

Libraries--Special collections--Security measures.

Libraries.

Kenyon College. Library.

Kenyon College.

Breithaupt, David.

Barth, Christopher D.

Physical Description:

174 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Diversion Books, 2015.

Summary:

"In October 1990 Kenyon College hired David Breithaupt as its library's part-time evening supervisor. In April 2000 he was fired after a Georgia librarian discovered him selling a letter by Flannery O'Connor on eBay, but that was only the tip of the iceberg: for the past ten years, Breithaupt had been browsing the collection, taking from it whatever rare books manuscripts, and documents caught his eye--Flannery O'Connor letters, W.H. Auden annotated typescripts, a Thomas Pynchon manuscript, and much, much more. It was a large-scale, long-term pillaging of Kenyon College's most precious works. After he was caught, the American justice system looked like it was about to disappoint the college the way it had countless rare book crime victims before--but Kenyon refused to let this happen"--Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

The story about David Breithaupt who was caught in 2000, pillaging Kenyon College's valuable holdings.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-174).

Local Notes:

The Landau-Savedoff Memorial Reference Collection on Cultural & Heritage Purloinment.

ISBN:

9781682301487

1682301486

OCLC:

922376340