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Rob Lopresti, a government information librarian at Western Washington University, will share his story of the 2006 library map thief, and what ²ÝÁñÉçÇø did to help catch him, in a lecture planned for 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, in Zoe's Bookside Bagels in Wilson Library.

is part of the Western Libraries Reading Series.

Four years ago, someone stole hundreds of maps and some books from the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Library. More than a year and a half of investigation by ²ÝÁñÉçÇø staff resulted in the federal conviction of a man who confessed to robbing more than 100 libraries in the United States and Canada. Almost 20,000 pages and hundreds of books were found in the thief's collection.