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'A most valuable book.'—Christian Science MonitorFor readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis'systematic pillaging of Europe's libraries, and the small team of heroic librarians now working to return the stolen books to their rightful owners. While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves—Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europe's libraries and bookshops, large and small, the books they stole were not burned. Instead, the Nazis began to compile a library of their own that they could use to wage an intellectual war on literature and history. In this secret war, the libraries of Jews, Communists, Liberal politicians, LGBT activists, Catholics, Freemasons, and many other opposition groups were appropriated for Nazi research, and used as an intellectual weapon against their owners. But when the war was over, most of the books were never returned. Instead many found their way into the public library system, where they remain to this day. Now, Rydell finds himself entrusted with one of these stolen volumes, setting out to return it to its rightful owner. It was passed to him by the small team of heroic librarians who have begun the monumental task of combing through Berlin's public libraries to identify the looted books and reunite them with the families of their original owners. For those who lost relatives in the Holocaust, these books are often the only remaining possession of their relatives they have ever held. And as Rydell travels to return the volume he was given, he shows just how much a single book can mean to those who own it.

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Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian at Harvard and a gifted narrator, gives a colourful, fast-paced tour through the stacks from ancient times to the present. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved, but also controlled, inspired, shaped, hidden and obliterated knowledge: Battles' spirited journey takes us from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the beginnings of the World Wide Web. Along the way, Battles explores not only how libraries are built but also how they are destroyed, from the neglect and decay of Alexandria (and myth of its burning), to the burnings of scrolls in ancient China, to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish conquerers - and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe by the Nazis and by Bosnian Serbs in the Balkans.

02 <4> "1940/1945" --- 024.8 --- 02 <09> --- 02 <09> <37/38> --- 027.71 <493 LEUVEN> --- 378.4 <493 KUL> --- Bibliotheekwezen--Europa--?"1940/1945" --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Griekse en Romeinse Oudheid --- Universiteitsbibliotheken--België--LEUVEN --- Universiteiten: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven--KUL --- Libraries --- Libraries and society --- Books --- History. --- 378.4 <493 KUL> Universiteiten: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven--KUL --- 027.71 <493 LEUVEN> Universiteitsbibliotheken--België--LEUVEN --- 02 <09> <37/38> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Griekse en Romeinse Oudheid --- 02 <09> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- 02 <4> "1940/1945" Bibliotheekwezen--Europa--?"1940/1945" --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers).

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Collection management (Libraries) --- Library materials --- Newspapers --- 024.8 --- 025.7 --- 025.85 --- 676.014 --- 699.8 --- 699.8 Protection of and in buildings. Emergency measures. Precautions --- Protection of and in buildings. Emergency measures. Precautions --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- 676.014 Chemical constitution, composition (of pulps, paper etc.) --- Chemical constitution, composition (of pulps, paper etc.) --- 025.85 Onderhoud van boeken. Restauratie. Vriesdrogen. Boekbeschadiging --- Onderhoud van boeken. Restauratie. Vriesdrogen. Boekbeschadiging --- 025.7 Conserveren van boeken. Inbinden. Microfilmeren. Digitaliseren --- Conserveren van boeken. Inbinden. Microfilmeren. Digitaliseren --- Reproduction of library materials --- Copying --- Conservation of library materials --- Preservation of library materials --- Collections management (Libraries) --- Libraries --- Library collection management --- Technical services (Libraries) --- Conservation and restoration --- Reproduction --- Preservation --- Collection management --- Baker, Nicholson. --- Book acquisition --- Documentation and information --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers).

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The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction--and surprising survival--of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo. He examines both the motivations for these acts -- political, religious, and cultural -- and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process.

024.8 --- 02 <09> --- 02 <09> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- Censorship --- Libraries --- Book burning --- Archives --- Cultural property --- Information science --- Books --- History. --- Destruction and pillage --- History --- Protection. --- Sociological aspects. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Archives. --- Book burning. --- Censorship. --- Destruction and pillage. --- 1900-2099. --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- 378.4 <493 LEUVEN> --- Universiteiten--België--LEUVEN --- Censorship - History. --- Libraries - Destruction and pillage - History - 20th century. --- Libraries - Destruction and pillage - History - 21st century. --- Book burning - History - 20th century. --- Book burning - History - 21st century. --- Archives - History. --- Cultural property - Protection. --- Information science - Sociological aspects. --- Books - Social aspects - History. --- Libraries - Social aspects. --- Archives - Social aspects. --- HISTORY, MODERN--20TH CENTURY --- KNOWLEDGE, SOCIOLOGY OF--HISTORY --- COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE --- LIBRARY INFORMATION NETWORKS --- INFORMATION SOCIETY --- 1900-2099

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Unrepentant book thief John Charles Gilkey has stolen a fortune in rare books from around the county. Yet unlike most thieves, who steal for profit, Gilkey steals for the love of the books. Perhaps equally obsessive, though, is Ken Sanders, the self-appointed "bibliodick" driven to catch him. Sanders, a lifelong rare book collector and dealer turned amateur detective, will stop at nothing to catch the thief plaguing his trade.

Gilkey, John --- Bibliomania --- Book collecting --- Book collectors --- Book thefts --- Thieves --- 024.8 --- 090.1 <73> --- Bibliophily --- Books --- Book selection --- Collectors and collecting --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Robbers --- Criminals --- Libraries, Thefts from --- Theft --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- 090.1 <73> Bibliofilie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Bibliofilie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- Gilkey, John, --- Sanders, Ken, --- Gilkey, John Charles