Library book vandalism

'Library book or materials vandalism, sometimes termed intentional destruction of books or materials or book or material mutilation is the act of damaging or defacing library books. It is a considerable loss of resources for libraries with high rates of vandalism. As with book theft at libraries, vandalism of books has been studied by a a number of library professionals.
A three year study conducting in the early part of the 1980s showed that 64% of American public libraries reported having at least one insident of book vandalism. A later study in Great Britain found that, on average, libraries experienced 9.8 book vandalism events a year.
In 1995, twenty California libraries were plagued by a serial "book slicer", removing pages from modern poetry collections causing over $10,000 in damage to over 200 books.

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