PositiveSlateIn Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge , Richard Ovenden, head librarian at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, chronicles how libraries have served as sanctuaries for knowledge under constant threat, and what that means for the present and the future ... Ovenden’s book is matter-of-fact in tone, but its historical accounts of the destruction of libraries and the information they contain are harrowing.
