Author: E. StevensPublisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1598581465
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Burnt Records
Author: E. StevensPublisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1598581465
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Burnt Records
Author: E. Dan StevensPublisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1598581457
Category : Arson
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Land Titles and Burnt Record Acts
Author: CaliforniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land titles
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Burning the Books
Author: Richard OvendenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674241207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
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 UK 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 In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself.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 US 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.
The Reporter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Cinders and Silence
Author: Tom A. RafinerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780984678266
Category : Cass County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois
Author: Illinois. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Source records of the great war
Author: Charles Francis HornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A family helps Mom deliver her baby at home.
Reports of cases at law and in chancery argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois
Author: The Northeastern Reporter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description