https://www.phansw.org.au/threats-to-libraries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=threats-to-libraries Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:48:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.phansw.org.au/threats-to-libraries/#comment-116155 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:06:37 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=1708#comment-116155 How very true. Some other publications that document the never-ceasing loss of libraries and their collections are James Raven’s “Lost Libraries: the Destruction of Great Book Collections since Antiquity” (Palgrave Macmillan 2004), and Lucien Polastron’s “Books on Fire: The Tumultuous Story of the World’s Great Libraries” (Thames & Hudson 2007), which includes a selective chronology from 1358 BC to AD 2003. Robert Bevan’s “the Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War” (Reaktion 2004) is also useful. It is interesting to note this recording of the deliberate destruction of libraries coincides with the spread of electronic communications, almost as if its time for writing epitaphs for an institution that is, let’s not forget, still well and truly alive, if under attack.

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