Libraries preserve the knowledge and ideas on which rights depend no wonder they are so often attacked. Richard Ovenden tells the history of this deliberate destruction of knowledge--from library burnings to digital attacks and contemporary underfunding--and makes a passionate plea for the importance of these threatened institutions.
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ISBN:9780674271104 (trade paperback)
Physical Description:print 308 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition:First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
Publisher:Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.