Apologies for cross-posting.
We have 3M equipment for sensitizing and desensitizing 3M security strips on VHS tapes and DVDs. We have security pass-through gates that are supposed to go off if an item that goes through the gate has not been desensitized, generally designed to prevent stealing. I'm sure many of you use the same kind of system. Our DVDs and tapes very routinely set off the gates, even though the materials have been checked out, and supposedly desensitized. It is so frequent that the folks watching the doors downstairs have quit stopping people because "it happens all the time..." It does NOT, however, happen with books going through the same gates, so thankfully, we are ruling out the very expensive gates as the culprits. We strip every DVD or VHS in a case. I am trying to troubleshoot what the issue could be before I declare it the desensitizer and have to buy a new one. I think it could be user error, the strips, maybe the placement of the strips?, the cases (standard plastic), or the desensitizer. Has anyone else had this issue? How did you troubleshoot it? What did you find that I could try? Thanks very much for any thoughts on this...jen Jennifer Foster Media Librarian Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library 361.570.4195 http://vcuhvlibrary.uhv.edu
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