Kelvin Smith Library and the Judge Ben C. Green Law Library will welcome Travis McDade, the curator of law rare books and associate professor of library service at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, to campus for a talk.
McDade is the country’s foremost expert on crimes against rare books, maps, documents and other printed cultural heritage resources. He is the author of The Book Thief: the True Crimes of Daniel Spiegelman (Westport: Praeger, 2006), which highlighted the federal judicial recognition of books as cultural objects whose value cannot be adequately captured by market price.
McDade will present “Pittsburgh’s Perfect Crime: The Hows, Whys, and What-Nows of a Major Rare Book Theft” Wednesday, March 20, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the School of Law’s Moot Court Room.