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Go ahead. Take our whole library! This page is a wealth of information on museum security and management. It contains a great deal of information that you will find useful if you are trying to learn about cultural property protection. There are other things to learn and download on other pages on this site but this page is the primary depository of information that we offer. Go ahead. Download it all. It’s generally in PDF format but a few items are offered in other formats. This material is offered for the use of our colleagues in their personal growth process. You may download and print single copies of this material and distribute multiple copies within your organization if it will help you to develop your security program or educate your staff. Please respect the copyright on this material, however. Anything that contains a copyright notice is protected by copyright and further duplication without our permission is not permitted. 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Sample of our work on a typical design project for a security system. plans.pdf Useful to know what our work product looks like. Because we can’t show you a client’s report or plans, we created an imaginary museum called the City Art Museum. These are the blueprints for this “new” “virtual’ museum that include a security system design. Most Recent White Paper Steve Keller’s 2007 White Paper on digital CCTV. This is an important article and unless you truly understand digital CCTV, you need to read this. Click Here For Link You will be at another website so use your browser’s back button to return. Our 2008 CD Resource We did a seminar on digital CCTV. You can still benefit from this program but be advised that technology changes quickly and while we were luke warm on IP addressable cameras in 2009, the cost has fallen and the cameras have improved somewhat so call us if, after viewing this material, you want to know our current opinion of a specific emerging CCTV technology. Check out this excellent resource here: http://www.stevekeller.com/Digital_CCTV_Seminar/Start.html I’ve done a minimal edit of this paper to update our address etc. If I missed anything important, let me know. We are, of course, no longer a Cultural Property Protection Group company and our name changed from Steve Keller and Associates to Architect’s Security Group, Inc. This item will be fully edited and corrected when it is converted over to our main website. You will be leaving the main website to go to this supplemental site so please come back! Articles and Useful Materials “The Architect’s Prized Building May Be Security’s Nightmare” ArchitectsPrizedBldg.PDF Paper presented at the Smithsonian’s National Conference on Cultural Property Protection “Consultant Lite” ConsultantLite.PDF Hiring a Security Consultant “Clearing Up Cloudy Skies” HiringAConsultant.PDF Cover article, “Security Management” magazine Landscape Security LandscapeSecurity.PDF First published in “Security Management” magazine A Model Request For Proposal for a Security Survey by a Consultant Model_RFP_Survey.pdf Useful if you are planning to hire a consultant by low bid. Museum Consultants MuseumConsultants.PDF Securing Historic Buildings SecuringHistoricBldgs.PDF Cover article, “Security Management” magazine The Security Consultant’s Role in Helping To Select an Access Control System AccessControl.PDF Reading Blueprints, An Essential Management Skill Reading Blueprints.PDF Paper presented at the Smithsonian’s National Conference on Cultural Property Protection Learn about the video “Museum Security: the Guard’s Role. It is used in more than a thousand museums and costs very little. Here’s where to buy it. GuardsRoleVideo.pdf Sample Rules for Contractors in a museum RulesForContractors.PDF Suggested Guidelines for Museum Security GuidelinesRev2002.pdf Protecting Concert Halls ConcertHalls.PDF Protecting Corporate Art Protecting Corporate Art.PDF Protecting Child Care Facilities Child Care Facilities.PDF Sample Security Policy samplepolicy.pdf This is a sample of one of the policies from the “Instant Museum Security Department Policy Manual” by Horizon Institute. Use it as an example of the format and style of a policy. Steve Keller’s Powerpoint slides from his 2006 presentation before the National Museums of Canada annual meeting. The topic is Protecting the City Art Museum: Basic Concepts. cityartmuspowerpt.pdf A Dozen Things You Can Do To Improve Your Security Program DozenThings.PDF Making Big Ticket Purchases BigTicketPurchases.PDF Critical Building Systems You Guards Must Know About CriticalBldgSvcs List.pdf Museum Crowd Control CrowdControl.PDF Dealing With Disorderly Visitors DealingwithDisorderly.PDF Basic Elements of a Good Disaster Plan DisasterPlanElements.pdf Guards and Public Relations GuardsandPublicRelations.PDF Current Quanderies of Museum Professionals Quandries.PDF Sample Rules of Decorum for a Museum RulesofDecorum.PDF Some Important Steps In Using Your Security People To Enhance Your Security Image SecurityImage.PDF Taking Advantage of Events TakingAdvantagEvents.PDF The Picasso is Missing PicassoMissing.PDF Treasures at Risk: Museum Security at Home and Abroad TreasuresatRisk.PDF Cover story in Esse Comm, a European security magazine Understanding Risk UnderstandingRisk.PDF Paper presented at the Smithsonian’s National Conference on Cultural Property Protection Technology: Unlocking The Future for Security Practitioners UnlockTheFuture.PDF What Constitutes a Good Security Program WhatConstitutesProgram.PDF Collection Storage CollectionStorage.PDF Article for a curatorial publication The Art of Couriership Couriership.PDF Paper presented at the Smithsonian’s National Conference on Cultural Property Protection Adding Pizzazz To Your Training AddingPizzazzTraining.PDF A bit outdated but the point is still very valid. Training ADULT Security Officers: The principles of Adult Education AdultTraining.PDF Paper presented at the Smithsonian’s National Conference on Cultural Property Protection Programmed Training ProgrammedTraining.PDF Paper presented at the Smithsonian’s National Conference on Cultural Property Protection Security Training: Why We Have Failures TrainingFailures.PDFPaper presented at the Smithsonian’s National Conference on Cultural Property Protection Training The Security Officer: A Museum’s Special Needs TrainingTheSecurityOff.PDF Department of Homeland Security Training Resources: DHS has some good programs. Check them out here and there are others you can get to from their website: http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1259859901230.shtm Humorous Materials That You May Enjoy The Invisa-Series security product. See Humor. These product cut sheets are for make believe products we wish we had invented because curators and architects everywhere would buy them. Enjoy the joke. Ideal Security in the Ideal Museum the way the Security Manager Would Like It To Be IdealMuseum.PDF This also includes the museum the way the curator would like to see it. We want Patriot missiles on the roof; they want petunias as a security hedge. We want first class security and they want prisoners on a work release program as custodians to save money. You get the point. This looks great if printed on an 11” by 17” printer and posted on your bulletin board! Quotations of Note Here are some quotations by famous people about art. Great for a staff meeting. ArtQuotesRev06.pdf Harry Jackson was a famous artist from Wyoming who specialized in Western art. He came to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1979 or 1980 and Steve Keller was hosting a group of about 30 museum security directors from around the U.S. for a symposium sponsored by the University of Minnesota. Steve invited him to stay for dinner and share his wisdom about museum security and guards from an artist’s perspective. We expected him to make the typical remarks critical of us and unappreciative of our mission but we were wrong. Harry said something truly profound and Steve Keller wrote it down and made this sign which he displayed on his office wall for many years. It is perfect for the office wall of any museum security manager and is worth framing. HJacksonQuote.pdf What is perfect security? This is a good sign to display. perfectsecuritysignrev06.pdf Signs Steve put these signs together in about 1990 and they have been requested by people ever since then. As he travels, he still sees them posted in security offices around the country. Here they are again. Print and enjoy. SecuritySignsrev06.pdf The Ufizzi Museum in Florence was bombed years ago and Steve made this quote into a sign. With all of the terrorism threats today we’ve revived this sign. Ufizzirev06.pdf Blog Please don’t leave without visiting our Breaking News Blog. This is a very popular part of our website with many regular readers. 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