The fight for libraries, ‘the heart’ of democratic freedom
Libraries have become ‘battlegrounds for other political motivations,’ says Oxford’s Richard Ovenden
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/libraries-richard-ovenden-1.6785115
“Richard Ovenden is the 25th Bodley’s Librarian, director of libraries at the University of Oxford. He is also the author of Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge.
His 2020 book described historical examples of book burnings and trashed archives, but Ovenden notes that events involving libraries in the last few years have “been a stark reminder of the threats to institutions that most people take for granted.””
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