Richard Ovenden is director of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Balliol College. He serves as treasurer of the Consortium of European Research Libraries and president of the Digital Preservation Coalition.
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In Burning the Books, Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK... SEE MORE