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3M Detection Systems Training Your Staff
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 3M 2000–2008
Section 2. Training Your Staff
A key element of any media loss prevention effort is a
successful staff training program. Your 3M
Detection System will be much more effective with
the active cooperation and participation of your entire
library staff. We recommend that you periodically
conduct formal training sessions, including the
following elements to ensure its success:
2–1 Familiarization with the Operator’s Manual
2-2 Hands-on practice marking materials with
security strips and labels and desensitizing and
resensitizing security strips
2-3 Review of your library’s security policies
2-4 What to do when the alarm sounds
2-5 System Alarm Log
2-6 Addressing patron concerns
2.1 Operator’s Manual
This manual contains the information necessary to
operate your 3M Detection System, as well as
supplemental information on handling alarms,
ordering supplies, and training your staff. It also
contains important information about security strips
and circulation accessories.
Library personnel should be familiar with the manual
and where to locate it so they can refer to it when
necessary.
2.2 Hands-on Practice
After reviewing the Operator’s Manual, your staff will
benefit from actual hands-on experience with the 3M
Materials Flow Management products they are
expected to use. We suggest you start by
demonstrating the proper techniques for each stripping
procedure. You may wish to conduct the actual
practice as follows:
 Set up your circulation accessories on a table
along with security strips and a few bayonets.
 Let each staff member practice installing the
security strips that you use:
B1 Strips – in the spine of
books
B2 Strips – in the gutter of
books
102 Strips – in the spine of books;
used when a B1 strip is
too long.
103 Strips – in the spine of books;
used when a B2 strip is
too long.
R2 Strips – in the gutter of
books
DCD-2 Overlays – on compact discs
DAC-1 Cassette – on audio cassettes
DVM-1 Strips – on video tapes
 Let each staff member practice desensitizing and
resensitizing materials with the appropriate
circulation accessories.