introduction

The past couple of years Steve Keller's contributions to the MSN mailinglist have become very important and led to many praising reactions. This page is reserved for Steve's most valuable and informative texts.

• February 15, 2003
  - Re: responses to query Guard coverage per sq. ft.

• January 29, 2003
  - product info: Museum Security Knowledge Base Released (Steve Keller)

• June 26, 2002
  - Client Security Alert From

• June 7, 2002
  - RE: Camera restrictions
  - high value art

• August 4, 2001
  - Mosler, former MSN sponsor, out of business
  - When it Rains it Pours--Software House Sold
  - What is a dongle and why do you need it?

• May 22, 2001
  - Computer Security--Your Alarm System

• May 3, 2001
  - Re: I'm looking for a security device

• February 24, 2001
  - Re: crisis plan armed robbery

• February 15, 2001
  - Re: museum security

• February 1, 2001
  - Museum Security Guidelines Now Available Free

• January 23, 2001
  - Consulting Firm Adds Architect to Staff

• December 19, 2000
  - Re: query MUSEUM SLEEPOVER

• December 6, 2000
  - Re: Cost per square foot (Steve Keller)

• October 18, 2000
  - pencil markings on paintings (RE: invisible ink)

• September 25, 2000
  - Re: training videos

• September 19, 2000
  - re: security position request

• September 12, 2000
  - Maryhill Museum burglary (betty Long)

• September 12, 2000
  - Discrimination at Kimbell Museum, final words

• September 3, 2000
  - Re: Burglars steal artifacts (Steve Keller)

• August 17, 2000
  - Re: Security strips and special collections?

• July 24, 2000
  - Re: Security questions (Steve Keller)

• April 16, 2000
  - Re: Why Store objects in a Safe (Steve Keller)
  - Re: Ghosts/Scheiner/Secret passages

• April 13, 2000
  - Re: Ghosts (Bari Falese and Steve Keller)

• April 9, 2000
  - Haunted Museums (Steve Keller)

• March 25, 2000
  - Security budget (Steve Keller)

• March 24, 2000
  - Re: uniforms (Steve Keller)

• February 28, 2000
  - Museum and Cultural Property CD-ROM (Steve Keller)
  - "Arrogance" (Steve Keller)

• February 17, 2000
  About the direction the Museum Security Mailinglist is going

• February 16, 2000
  Steve Keller's presentation at the 2000 National Conference on Cultural Property protection

• January 4, 2000
  - Re: Stolen Items on Ebay

• November 21/22, 1999
  - Millennium Update

• November 19, 1999
  - Re: millennium concerns

• November 10, 1999
  - millennium concerns

• November 1, 1999
  - Re: steps for public services staff to take if they observe a theft in process

• October 15, 1999
  - Re: sprinklers in the library

• October 11, 1999
  - construction of saferooms
  - articles transferred in Adobe Acrobat format

• September 22, 1999
  - Re: Interpol CD

• September 20, 1999
  - Re: arrests Headley-Whitney museum theft

• September 20, 1999
  - Re: Interpol CD, Virginia M. Curry

• May 28, 1999
  - RE: Disturbed visitors
• May 28, 1999
  - a security consultant's visit of historic houses in Maryland and Virginia

• May 26, 1999: Pre-Paid Security Consulting Plan

• May 26, 1999: - Re: alarm systems and their shortcomings (messages by: Steve Keller, Jon Speck, Sarah Tuttle, and Kevin Murszewsk)

• May 4, 1999: "Entrapment"

• April 28, 1999: - Re: Maintenance of sprinkler systems

• - Re: y2k

• April 14, 1999: On the Balkans conflict and damage to cultural property

• March 25, 1999: Meteorite Theft

• Another Movie on Art Theft?

• Understanding Risk: presentation at the March 1999 Conference on Cultural Property Protection in L.A.

• Things Your Museum Director Asks Your Security Consultant About YOU, And How You Can Make Sure That His Answers Won't Hurt You

• Intrusion detection techniques

• Guidedogs in training

• Checking handbags and backpacks

• What are the important elements of a good post order?

• Advertising on MSN mailinglist

• Manuals as "Works in progress"

• Value added services (re: presentation for upcoming security conference)

• Stolen to order

• A Guard, a guard, my kingdom for a guard

• Sprinkler thoughts.....

• More Sprinkler thoughts....

• Encarta Encyclopedia and motion detectors

• late discovery of theft at V&A museum

• Audit at Arizona State University Art Museum

• Practices of security in museums

• CCTV surveillance via Internet

• Survival of the fires

• Student guards

• Student guards, more.......

• Lakota study ("The Performance of Temporary Protection Assistants as an Adjunct to the Guard Force at the Hirshhorn Museum")

• Dallas vandalism

• Fire Suppression Systems/LowBidders

• Access behind public galleries

• Art loans to politicians

• COPYRIGHT; Request for pointers for an interested amateur

• confidential security information on the MSN mailinglist

• card keys or code locks historic houses

• Prison labor

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