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Burning the Books
A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
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Artikel-Nr:
9780674271104
Veröffentl:
2022
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.05.2022
Seiten:
320
Autor:
Richard Ovenden
Gewicht:
290 g
Format:
207x136x24 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Richard Ovenden is Director of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2019, is a member of the American Philosophical Society, and serves as Treasurer of the Consortium of European Research Libraries and President of the Digital Preservation Coalition.
Libraries preserve the knowledge and ideas on which rights depend; no wonder they are so often attacked. Richard Ovenden tells the history of this deliberate destruction of knowledge¿from library burnings to digital attacks and contemporary underfunding¿and makes a passionate plea for the importance of these threatened institutions.