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List of destroyed libraries – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation – Jonathan Rose – Google Books
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The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
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Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, Jews browsing in the ghetto library. – Yad Vashem Photo Archive
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Jewish Libraries in the Polish Ghettos during the Nazi Era on JSTOR
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List of libraries damaged during World War II – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
War is not healthy for children and other living things including libraries.
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Germans burn Belgian town of Louvain – Aug 25, 1914 – HISTORY.com
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An odd sort of place named after Borges’ essay The Library of Babel where the writer imagines a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set. There is a copy of Borges’ Selected Non-Fictions here that I found via google search. Browsing and Searching seemed to get me to gibberish but the Reference Hex has suggestions for what to do with the gibberish.
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Of Bibliophilia and Biblioclasm > Theodore Dalrymple
I learned a new work reading Battles: biblioclasm:
“One of my treasured books is a little classic of which I should never even have heard had I not browsed in so many bookshops. It is William Blades’ The Enemies of Books, first published in 1880. The frontispiece is an engraving of John Bagford, described as ‘shoemaker and biblioclast,’ and another of the delightful pictures is of a furtive charwoman feeding pages of a Caxton Bible to feed a fire. The enemies of books are ranged in chapters in a great chain of being: first come inanimate forces such as fire and water, rising to the lower animals such as bookworms and other vermin, and finally rising to the pinnacle of biblioclasm, that is to say the conscious book-destroyers, the bookbinders and book collectors. (John Bagford tore out the first pages of hundreds of rare volumes and bound them into a single folio volume, which is now in the British Library.) “