Two stories of professional interest in this morning's Times  : a report of a Danish librarian turned thief, now dead, who stole 3,200 books from the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen. His widow and others were caught trying to sell a 1517 title, irritatingly unnamed, through Christie's. And a letter on the letters page correcting a previous report about books lent by the House of Commons Library to the Kings Library at the British Museum .
Theft by librarians from their own collections is unfortunately not unknown. I wonder if it has ever been quantified? I knew one senior librarian of a major London institution who referred to his extensive and internationally famous historical collection as his "pension fund"…he was joking, wasn't he?