• The AAM Guide to Provenance Research By Nancy H. Yeide, Konstantin Akinsha, and Amy L. Walsh

• UNESCO: Discover and read complete works on-line at no charge .
  Since the creation of UNESCO, books and reading have always had a special place in the Organization's cultural activity. Today, the constant improvements in communication technology create a marvelous opportunity to widen this field of action through developing access to quality content and encouraging new cultural habits. The virtual library that you are about to discover is part of the new efforts to make books available to the largest possible public.
  This site is different from the increasing number of on-line bookstores that you find on the web. First of all, it contains a limited number of titles but which have been chosen for their quality and pertinence and, secondly, the totality of the text is on-line free of charge. Since some of these titles are now out-of-print, it is a unique opportunity to rediscover them and, for those in-print, they may be ordered. We decided to open the library with a first selection of works mainly on cultural heritage. Your views are important to us so we would really welcome your comments and suggestions that will help us in our choice of future titles.

• Spiel, Robert E., Jr.

  ART THEFT AND FORGERY INVESTIGATION: The Complete Field Manual.

  The goal of this unique manual is to arm criminal investigators with tools and weapons that are suitable and effective against art theft and forgery. The author, with over 25 years' experience in the art theft investigation field, presents comprehensive techniques, tips, and ideas to help dimish the level of frustration experienced by criminal investigators required to handle the growing number and magnitude of art crimes. The structure of the manual is simple and direct. The first part guides the reader in the use of the text and introduces the art world environment. The second part discusses the investigator's interaction with the victim, including interviewing, crime scene investigation, and identifying and developing suspects. Part three deals with offenders and covers such topics as art theft methods, forgery techniques, methods of distribution, and investigative countermeasures. The final section presents a comprehensive review of solutions and recoveries, including chapters on legal weapons, insurance and rewards, the use of experts, universal and variable contact group classifications, object bulletins, art criminal photo albums, informant development, undercover methods, unidentified victims, and recovery and seizure of stolen or fake art. In addition, the book is complemented by an extensive glossary and bibliographic resources. This exceptionally unique manual is intended to function at an intensely practical level and is intended for both study and immediate reference.

• The Art Newspaper
  A notorious publication very worthwhile subscribing. There is also a possibillity to subscribe to weekly e-mail digest.

• Stealing History:
  June 12 2000 saw the launch of Stealing History: the Illicit Trade in Cultural Material, a report commissioned by the Museums Association and ICOM-UK, and written by Neil Brodie, Jenny Doole and Peter Watson. It provides an overview of the illicit trade in archaeological, ethnographic and palaeontological material, and the damage it causes, and makes recommendations for museums to protect them from buying illicit material, and for Her Majesty's Government to help stamp the trade out. Limited supplies of Stealing History are available, priced £8.00 or $US15.00 (including postage and packing). Please make cheques or money orders payable to "the University of Cambridge" and send them, with your details to Jenny Doole, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Reseach, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.

• The "Looting Question" Bibliography: Web and Literary Resources on the Archaeological Politics of Private Collecting, Commercial Treasure Hunting, Looting, and "Professional" Archaeology

• PRESERVATION OF LIBRARY & ARCHIVAL MATERIALS
  EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; Northeast Document Conservation Center: series of disaster leaflets available on line.

• Archaeology, Antiquities, Theft, and Looting - (“Electronic Bibliography” of URL’s ); composed by Jonathan Sazonoff

• Cross reference International Committee on Museum Security (ICMS) publications, composed by David Liston

• Art Newspaper.com: stolen art

• THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA COLLECTION FOUNDATION; STUDY OF PUBLIC’S BEHAVIOR AT MUSEUMS; FRANCISCO DE LA FUENTE, SECURITY DEPARTMENT CHIEF

• THE DESKBOOK OF ART LAW

• Peter Harclerode & Brendan Pittaway:
  

  The Lost Masters, the looting of Europe's treasurehouses.

  Victor Gollancz, London
  To be published August 19.
  ISBN 0 575 05254 6
  4to, clothbound, dustjacket, 402pp, b/w illustration
  UKPounds 20,00
  The NAZI occupation of Europe during WW.II did more than fuel ideas of a thousand year Reich. Adolf Hitler was not content with merely the seizure of the continent's territory but desired its treasures as well. Fired by his ambition to establish the world's finest museums and galleries in his former home town in Austria, he systematically looted Europe's treasurehouses to accumulate a magnificent hoard of important and priceless art collections.
  Much loot was recovered at the war's end, but vast quantities disappeared once again with the arrival in Germany of Stalin's Red Army, which indulged in wholesale pillage while other Allies picked over the ruins on the Third Reich for their own enrichment.
  The Lost Masters is a dramatic account of the looting of Europe and the history of the attempts by those who lost so much to reclaim their precious art heritage in the face of the indifference from governments and the international art trade.
  The Museum Security Mailinglist has paid a lot of attention to the recovery of looted art (see: http://www.museum-security.org/ww2) the past couple of years. This book by Harclerode and Pittaway, together with Feliciano's The Lost Museum, and Simpson's The Spoils of War, offers a lot of background information. Not only about the looting during wartime but also about the near impossible struggle to regain stolen property after the war was over.
  The Lost Masters bears witness to the determination and persistence of the survivors of the Holocaust, their families and other individuals searching for what was rightfully theirs. It is also a testament to the greed and naked self-interest on the part of those trying to thwart them. During the period since the war some works of art have been recovered, but the number of looted works still missing is huge and has a possible value of a staggering US $30 billion!
  These books are ' must-read' items, especially for those dealing in or collecting art and for numerous museums all over the world that hold art with a doubtful provenance. After reading these publications no one single museum, collector or dealer will be able to hide behind ignorance.
  For further information about The Lost Masters do contact:
  Laura Wolverson in the United Kingdom at:
  (0)171 520 4469
  e-mail: lmw@orionbooks.co.uk

• The National Locksmith magazine

• Oceana Online
  Internet resource for international legal research

• Holocaust-Era Assets: Research Institute Resources
  This short list refers to Research Institute holdings which bear upon nazi-era looting and post-war dissemination of stolen art. These archives contain provenance information, financial records, correspondence, and photographic documentation that both track the movement of objects and document the art market. The Research Institute houses many more archives than are listed here and therefore researchers are encouraged to browse the Research Library's on-line catalogues, IRIS and the Photo Study Collection Database, for dealer and gallery archives, as well as auction and conservator photographs, which may contain useful provenance information. The Institute has also a comprehensive collection of dealer and auction catalogues. In addition to these resources, the Getty Provenance Index maintains several electronic databases as well as nonautomated material on the history of ownership of works of art gathered from sales catalogues, archival records, and museum files.
  Douglas Cooper, Papers, ca. 1933-1985. Sections dealing with Nazi art policy and looting, and Allied protection of cultural property. Access may be partially restricted.
  Ellis K. Waterhouse, Notebooks and research files, (bulk 1924-1979). Includes diaries which describe works in situ in private and public collections from the 1930s through the 1950s. Other Waterhouse resources in Special Collections and the Photo Study Collection.

• International Journal of Cultural Property
  The International Journal of Cultural Property, published by OUP from 1998, is a major forum for the discussion of all questions relating to cultural property policy, ethics, preservation, economics and law.

• Museum Services International Home Page
  1716 17th Street, NW
  Washington, DC 20009
  Tel: 202/462-6176
  Fax: 202/462-2380
  Email: museplan@erols.com
  http://www.MuseumServicesIntl.org
  MSI IS A NON-PROFIT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION-YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS ARE MOST WELCOME
  The International Museum Bookstore and International Art and Craft Boutique.
  Since 1983, MSI has been providing planning, implementation and technical assistance services to the International Cultural Institution Community. However since most of our work occurs "behind the scenes" within these institutions, we are pleased to provide these educational opportunities to YOU.

• Simpson, Elizabeth (ed.). The Spoils of War--World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property.
  New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997.
  There is a large bibliography in this publication.

• Art Crime
  By John E. Conklin
  Praeger Publishers. Westport, Conn. 1994. 320 pages
  LC 93-11869. ISBN 0-275-94771-8. C4771 $55.00
  ** Description **
  "...Conklin spares no group or individual in this expose-museums, dealers, auction houses, corporate collectors, and even the artists themselves are scrutinized. His thorough research is supplemented by a lengthy bibliography. Professionals and general readers alike will find much of interest in this outstanding contribution to a realtively neglected subject." Library Journal
  This is the only book by a criminologist to look at the full range of crime involving works of art: forgery, fraud, theft, smuggling, and vandalism. It is up to date, drawing on much material from the "boom years" of the art market in the 1980s and continuing up through the 1990s, and assimilating information from a variety of sources: art magazines, newspaper accounts, and the relatively small amount of scholarship on art crime by art historians and criminologists. In addition to considering the motives of thieves, the book looks at the way art theft is socially organized: the types of thefts that are committed, the ways thieves locate art to steal and how they gain access to it, their use of insiders and fronts, and the way they launder stolen art. The relationship between art theft and organized crime, especially drug traffickers, is investigated. After looking at explanations of art vandalism and the way vandals explain their behavior, the book concludes with a consideration of policies to curb art crime. The entire book is written in a highly entertaining way, packed with case studies of numerous crimes and stories of smuggling, grave-robbing, and skullduggery, that will appeal to a general audience as well as professionals and academics in criminology, sociology, and art history.
  "Criminologist Conklin's engaging and informative study of crime in the art world is the most thorough examination of this complex subject to appear in years. Art crime includes forgery, fraud, theft, smuggling, and vandalism of fine art, antiquities, and ethnographic objects, and more often than not, it goes unreported. Experts hate to admit to being fooled by forgeries; dealers and collectors often indulge in fraud to inflate value but control costs and many thefts are actually commissioned. Conklin describes examples of each type of art crime and, in the volume's most innovative sections, analyzes the social organization of the art world and the methods by which its denizens establish the value of art."

• The Spoils of War. Newsletters
  Editorial board:
  István Fodor, Josefine Leistra, Doris Lemmermeier, Jacques Lust. Special thanks to Sigrid Rogalitzki and Willi Korte.
  Address:
  Koordinierungsstelle der Länder für die Rückführung von Kulturgütern beim Senator für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Kultur und Sport
  Herdentorsteinweg 7, D-28195 Bremen
  Tel.: 0049 - 421 - 361 6788 / 361 16173
  Fax: 0049 - 421 - 361 6025

• THE ART BRIEF
  The Art Brief -- providing the latest news about the artworld.
  It has never been so easy to keep informed about news of the art world. We gather the latest news about exhibitions, museums, art fairs, auctions, and other key art information, then condense it into an easy to read format, and deliver it to you weekly by e-mail. Our "art briefs" also cite the original sources of the news if you want to follow up with more in-depth information. Our sources include the daily newspapers and specialized art magazines, press releases, and museum and media web sites. And we don't just cover the traditional fine arts. We include the decorative arts, archaeology, architecture, design, photography, historic preservation and conservation.

• National Trust for Historic Preservation, Disaster Preparedness BIBLIOGRAPHY
  
  
• booklist Fakes and Forgeries

• The Scandal of the Century; The Mansoor Amarna Exposé
  The Scandal of the Century - The Mansoor Amarna Exposé is the factual story of The Mansoor Amarna Collection (http://www.amarna.com/). The controversy over this collection involves Egyptologists, scientists, and museums from around the world. Ms. Mansoor wrote this book to expose the unscholarly and tyrannical control that a few scholars have on the art world and our perception of the shape of past civilizations. The public should be made aware of their influence, indicates the author, so that some protection is established for our ancient heritage. This exposé concerns a collection of 106 limestone sculptures and fragments, dating from circa 1350 B.C., representing the beautiful Queen Nefertiti, King Akhenaten, and their family. The author's family has spent over forty years fighting to prove the authenticity of their collection. The author points out that they wouldn't have wasted their time and energy on that fight if they weren't absolutely sure of the authenticity of their sculptures.
  Read the complete book on line at: http://www.scandalofthecentury.com/

• The Journal of Conservation & Museum Studies: Published under the auspices of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, the Journal exists as an academic World Wide Web publication, disseminating information to the global conservation and museum community. The papers and articles found in the Journal represent the work of conservation and museum studies students from around the world, and have been refereed by academic staff representing conservation and museum studies training programmes. The Journal is available at University College London (UK), and at Conservation OnLine (USA).

• Kluwer publications on Art and Law:
  • Art Antiquity and Law
    
  • Art Loans
    
  • Legal Aspects of International Trade in Art/ Aspects juridiques du commerce international de l'art
    
  • Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts

• The Lost Museum, the Nazi conspiracy to steal the world's greatest works of art. The Lost Museum by Hector Feliciano. Published by Basic Books (Harper Collins Publishers), 1997, ISBN 0-465-04194-9. "A dramatic blend of WW II narrative, art history, and investigative journalism revealing the details of a shocking international conspiracy......." This books contains the story of the Nazis taking over 20,000 paintings, sculptures, and drawings from France. A 278pp clothbound, octavo, illustrated book. Price in USD: 27.50 (Canadian 39.00). The book is illustrated with private family pictures many of which have never been published before and is focused on the private collections of five families: Rothschild, Rosenberg, Bernheim-Jeune, David-Weill, and Schloss. It traces the art works as they passed through the hands of top German officials, unscrupulous art dealers, and unwitting auction houses such as Christie's and Sotheby's. Many works were returned to the owners, but thousands disappeared (as well as the owners....). Hector Feliciano spent more than seven years tracking down the story of this nazi pillaging. As all of you know the French government, after over fifty years (!!), exhibited many of the stolen artworks in several museums past spring. The book by Feliciano seems to belong in every art security reference library. Nobody will be able to deny knowledge about art looting in wartime in future (just wait and see what we will learn about the looting of art in the former Yugoslavia....) T C

• The AAM Bookstoreon-line. You may browse the full catalogue of professional literature in 20 categories, from Accessibility to Volunteers, and choose your books on-line.

• Art heritage Saved for Humanity, The Hermitage

• The Art Brief
  The Humanities Exchange, a non-profit museum service organization, has begun publication of a new on-line newsletter. The ART BRIEF is available at no charge, and will be sent to your e-mail address weekly. For the latest news and information about museums, exhibitions and art events in Europe and North America, just send your e-mail address, and each new issue will appear in your box every Tuesday morning.

• SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON ANTIQUITIES THEFT:
  This annotated bibliography is updated whenever new sources that meet the criteria of the bibliography are found.

• Archives and Museum Informatics is an international forum for exploring the representation of knowledge and the management of information relating to the world's cultural heritage. The journal aims to present timely and technical contributions to cultural informatics, and includes theory, case studies of implementations, and reviews of standards, print and electronic publications, software, network sites and conferences. Archives and Museum Informatics seeks articles which build commonality of interests between museums, archives and libraries, and scholarship in the arts and humanities. It balances the interests of documentation, education and entertainment, and aims to strengthen practice in each domain through the knowledge, understanding and application of inter-discliplinary approaches.

• Art loans by Professor Norman Palmer

• 1997 DISASTER RECOVERY SOURCEBOOK

• MUSEUM SECURITY AND PROTECTION:
  Information about publication by ICOM and Routledge offering action guides and checklists on almost all aspects of museum security. This link will lead you to table of contents.

• DISASTER RESEARCH CENTER
  PUBLICATIONS LIST:
  • Monographs
  • Reports
  • Historical and Comparative Disaster Series
  • Articles
  • Preliminary Papers
  • Dissertations
  • Final Projects
  • Miscellaneous

• VIRTUAL SECURITY LIBRARY
  A page by Robert A.Gardner. "The Virtual Security Library is growing. If you have written an article on a security or crime prevention topic or own the rights to such an article, and would like to have it appear here, let us know."

• Art Business Magazine
  for artists and arts workers. Culture. Art. Marketing. Sales. Art History. Economics. Art Business Services.... Updated weekly. Open submissions policy. All articles copyright their respective authors who may be reached through Art Business Magazine.

• JOURNALS THAT REGULARLY, OR WITH RELATIVE FREQUENCY, CONTAIN MATERIAL ON THE TOPIC OF ART THEFT

• JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND POPULAR CULTURE:
  Published by the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Available electronically on the Internet from SUNYCRJ@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU or on the World Wide Web (WWW) with the Uniform Resource Locator (URL):http://www.albany.edu/~gh7878/cjhome.html. For journal readers, this Web site is especially useful as a mechanism for identifying and retrieving articles and/or review essays of particular interest. For instance, one can search the indices for any volume and access any article or review essay almost instantaneously simply by choosing its title. Alternatively, one can search for material published in _JCJPC_ by author and, soon, by subject. Finally, the Web site is also of benefit to readers as it provides linkages to other Web sites that contain information relevant to the substantive concerns of _JCJPC_: criminal justice and popular culture.

• AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PHYSICS OF THE MUSEUM ENVIRONMENT, by Tim Padfield
  Back numbers:
  A calculator for atmospheric moisture (needs a browser that understands Javascript) 9/96
  Reference sheet for calculations concerning atmospheric moisture 9/96
  Evidence from thin air 7/96
  Lumen and Lux 6/96
  Effects of light on museum objects - light units 5/96
  A Himalayan Legend 4/96
  Humidity buffering by absorbent materials 3/96
  The Absorption of water by materials 2/96
  The Mollier Diagram 1/96
  The Great Art Robbery at Skamkloster 12/95
  Humidifying apparatus for relaxing paper, mark 2 11/95
  with notes on saturated salts (updated 6/5/96) and thermocouples.
  Humidifying device for relaxing paper 10/95
  The breath of Arrhenius: air conditioning in photographic archives , with Jesper Stub Johnsen

• SECURITY MANAGEMENT ONLINE
  The Security Professional's Central Web Connection. Security Management Online, the online service of Security Management, the monthly magazine of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS). On this Web site, regularly features are offered from the magazine, such as editorial columns and articles, as well as information only available online Security Management Online Forums: This is a list of topics for discussion.

• ART DAILY and INTERNET ART MAGAZINE:
  frequently give reports and articles of on stolen art.

• ART AND ANTIQUES MAGAZINE

• SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON ANTIQUITIES THEFT:
  This annotated bibliography (Selected by Laura Pope Robbins currently employed as a Reference Librarian in the Jack R. Hunt Library) is updated whenever new sources that meet the criteria of the bibliography.are found.

• SOFTWARE PROGRAM INCLUDING CLIP-ART TO DESIGN EMERGENCY PLANS

A Handbook for Cultural Heritage Institutions

ICOM AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON MUSEUM SECURITY.

ISBN 0-425-05457-5
ISBN 0-415-07509-2 (pbk)

Cover text:

CONTENTS

Section I Basic protection services

2. Cultural protection duties and responsibilities
Action guides:
2a Protection institution policy guide
2b Protection manager job description
2c Protection orientation materials
2d Security procedures guide

3.Vigilance and guard servicesAction Guides:
Action guides:
3a Protection staff post order
3b Protection staff reaction guide
3c Protection staff duty analysis
3d Incident report guide
3e Protection staff performance objectives

4. Protection, security, and conservation of collections
Action Guides:
4a Collection management policy guide
4b Professional collection ethics policy guide
4c Work consideration elements from background checks
4d Internal theft prevention program guide
4e Fine art handling rule guide
4f Guide to environmental elements which damage collections

Section II Building protection services

6. Building management and control
Action guides:
6a Property control rule guide
6b Indentification and access control rule guide
6c Exhibit area rule guide
6d Security levels for collection storage
6e library and archive protection rule guide
6f Important emergency building systems

7. Electronic building protection
Action guide:
7a motion detector alarm installation guide
8. Building fire protection
Action guide:
8a Fire prevention inspection report guide

9. Building construction, renovation, and rehabilitation
Action guides:
9a Construction management planning and coordination guide
9b Exhibit installation and demolition security guide
9c Major exhibit and minor construction protection guide
9d Major construction and renovation protection guide
9e New and rehabilitation construction security guide
9f Cultural institution new building agenda guide
9g Construction contractor security guide

Section III Special protection services

11. Personal safety in cultural institutions
Action guides:
11a Personal safety program or policy guide
11b Accident or injury report guide
11c Accident prevention inspection guide
11d Personal safety inspection report guide
11e Staff personal safety program guide

12. Emergency planning operation
Action guides:
12a Emergency risk analysis assessment
12b Emergency plan guide
12c Emergency calling or notification guide
12d Emergency services and supplies guide