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Security by the Book By Ralph C. Jensen
Pick any county in the United States, money is scarce to non-existent, and in the pecking order of who gets the available money, the county library is way down the line. Funding has been scarce for the Uinta County Library in Evanston, Wyoming. Despite being loved by the local citizens, the library just didn’t seem to be a pressing need.
There haven’t been any recent break-ins at the library, though it has long been recognized that the security technology in use, was not first rate. The few security cameras the library had no longer functioned and a second-hand anti-theft gate didn’t have all of the necessary parts to work properly considering the layout of the building.
“There was a strong feeling that personal security took pre-
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