Arab House of Sciences Publishers Burning Books History Of The Attack On Knowledge

In his book Burning Books: A History of the Attack on Knowledge, Richard Ovenden, director of Oxford's famous Bodleian Libraries, recounts the global history of the deliberate destruction - and sudden survival - of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since antiquity, but they have been threatened and deliberately neglected; Special in the modern era. Today, the knowledge they hold in libraries is facing destruction because they are deprived of funding, which is why they struggle for their existence. The author tells the story of the conflict of business—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history.. It also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, and examines the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information who often put their lives on the line. THE AUTHOR Richard Ovenden is a Bodleian curator, and the twenty-fifth person to hold the chief executive position at the Oxford University Library. Since 1987, he has worked in a number of important library archives and libraries, including the House of Lords Library and the National Library of Scotland (in his capacity as curator). And at the University of Edinburgh, where he was director of collections.