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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Ovenden, Richard.     Subjects     Censorship -- History.     Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History -- 20th century.     Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History -- 21st century.     Book burning -- History -- 20th century.     Book burning -- History -- 21st century.     Archives -- History.     Cultural property -- Protection.     Information science -- Sociological aspects.     Books -- Social aspects -- History.     Libraries -- Social aspects.     Archives -- Social aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ovenden, Richard.       by title:      Burning the books : ...       by call number:      363.3109 O96b     Search the Web     Ovenden, Richard.     Censorship -- History.     Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History -- 20th century.     Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History -- 21st century.     Book burning -- History -- 20th century.     Book burning -- History -- 21st century.     Archives -- History.     Cultural property -- Protection.     Information science -- Sociological aspects.     Books -- Social aspects -- History.     Libraries -- Social aspects.     Archives -- Social aspects.       MARC Display

Burning the books : a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge / Richard Ovenden. by Ovenden, Richard. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. Call #: 363.3109 O96b Subjects Censorship -- History.   Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History -- 20th century.   Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History -- 21st century.   Book burning -- History -- 20th century.   Book burning -- History -- 21st century.   Archives -- History.   Cultural property -- Protection.   Information science -- Sociological aspects.   Books -- Social aspects -- History.   Libraries -- Social aspects.   Archives -- Social aspects. ISBN:  9780674271104 9780674241206 (hc) Edition:  1st Harvard University Press ed. Description:  308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-290) and index. Summary:  "The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction -- and surprising survival -- of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the United Kingdom’s Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts -- political, religious, and cultural -- and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the United States Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions."--Publisher. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 363.3109 O96b Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 363.3109 O96b Adult books Checked out Jul 19, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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