List of destroyed libraries (English Wikipedia)

Abela, Joan (2016). "Unearthing Gozo's Lost Medieval Past". In Vella, Charlene (ed.). At Home in Art: Essays in Honour of Mario Buhagiar. Malta: Midsea Books. pp. 29–46. ISBN 9789993275985.

archive.org

Rebecca Knuth (2006). Burning books and leveling libraries: extremist violence and cultural destruction. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 166. ISBN 0-275-99007-9.
Rebecca Knuth (2006). Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: extremist violence and cultural destruction. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. p. 166. ISBN 0-275-99007-9.

archive.today

"Photos by Dr Saad Eskander of damage to Iraq National Library and Archive". Archived from the original on 27 April 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2014.

archives.gov

"Special Challenges - Fire and Fire Suppression". National Archives. 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2024-01-24.

arizona.edu

fp.arizona.edu

Riedlmayer, Andras (July 1995). "Erasing the Past: The Destruction of Libraries and Archives in Bosnia-Herzegovina". Archived from the original on January 18, 2012.

atlanticaxxii.org

Ruiz, David (13 February 2016). "Los revolucionarios volaron la Catedral, pero no la Universidad" [The revolutionaries blew up the Cathedral, but not the University]. Atlántica XXII (in Spanish) (41). Retrieved 9 October 2024. a día de hoy ya no hay plena constancia de que el trágico episodio tenga la firma de los revolucionarios que combatieron en la capital.

b92.net

"Nepovratno uništen deo Arhiva BiH". B92. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.

bbc.co.uk

news.bbc.co.uk

"Prized Iraqi annals 'lost in blaze'". BBC. April 14, 2003. Archived from the original on August 27, 2011. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
"1994: Library fire wipes out historic records". BBC. August 1994. Archived from the original on October 3, 2003. Retrieved May 9, 2022.

bbc.com

"Norwich Central Library fire 25 years on". BBC News. Retrieved 14 March 2020.

bcub.ro

"1895 – 1948 Fundaţia Universitară "Carol I"". Istoric (in Romanian). Retrieved May 9, 2022.

bl.uk

"Photos by Dr Saad Eskander of damage to Iraq National Library and Archive". Archived from the original on 27 April 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2014.

blogbaladi.com

"20 Pictures Of Al Sa'eh Library in Tripoli Before It Got Torched". Archived from the original on 2014-01-06.

bmip.info

"Related Articles". The Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project. Archived from the original on August 8, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2022.

books.google.com

Van De Mieroop, Marc (2007) [2005]. King Hammurabi of Babylon: A Biography. Blackwell Ancient Lives. Vol. 19. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-0-470-69534-0. p.76, 139, 152
Van De Mieroop (2007) p.76
Tovar de Teresa, Guillermo (1990). La ciudad de los palacios: crónica de un patrimonio perdido, Volume 1. Editorial Vuelta. p. 14. ISBN 9789686258172.
Hill, J. R. (2003). A New History of Ireland Volume VII: Ireland 1921–84. Oxford University Press. pp. Chapter II p2. ISBN 978-0-19-161559-7.
A Description of the Oriental Library Before and After the Destruction by Japanese on February 1, 1932. Mercury Press. 1932. p. 5. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
Hanneman, Mary L. (2007). Hasegawa Nyozekan and Liberalism in Modern Japan. Global Oriental. p. 24. ISBN 978-9004213364.
Solt, John (2020). Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue (1902–1978) (reprint ed.). BRILL. p. 3. ISBN 978-1684173266.
Weiss, Andrew (2014). Using Massive Digital Libraries: A LITA Guide (reprint ed.). American Library Association. ISBN 978-0838919743.
de Baets, Antoon (2002). Censorship of historical thought: a world guide, 1945–2000. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313311932. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
Raven, J., ed. (2004). Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity (illustrated ed.). Springer. p. 7. ISBN 0230524257.
Mack, Edward (2010). Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value (illustrated ed.). Duke University Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0822391654.
Scott, Andrew C. (2020). Fire: a Very Short Introduction. Vol. 640 of Very Short Introductions Series (illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-0198830030.

conservation-us.org

cool.conservation-us.org

"Leningrad Library Fire". Abbey Newsletter. Jun 1988. Retrieved 23 May 2014.

cornell.edu

dlxs.library.cornell.edu

Bird, George W. (1897). Wanderings in Burma. London: F. J. Bright & Son. p. 254.

dal.ca

library.dal.ca

"The Buildings of Dalhousie University – Weldon Law Building – Building History". Library.dal.ca. 1967-03-18. Archived from the original on 2016-01-07. Retrieved 2015-07-10.

debka.com

"Fleeing Islamists burn priceless Timbuktu library". Debkaflile. January 28, 2013. Archived from the original on January 29, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2022.

doi.org

Mackensen, Ruth Stellhorn (January 1935). "Moslem Libraries and Sectarian Propaganda". The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 51 (2). The University of Chicago Press: 93–94. doi:10.1086/370447. JSTOR 528860. S2CID 170296340. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
Godley, Michael R. (1988). "Review of The Life and Times of Zhang Yuanji, 1867-1959 by Manying Ip". Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs: 415–418. doi:10.2307/2158575. JSTOR 2158575. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
Riedlmayer, Andras J (2007). "Crimes of war, crimes of peace: destruction of libraries during and after the Balkan wars of the 1990s". Library Trends. 56 (1). Johns Hopkins University Press: 107–132. doi:10.1353/lib.2007.0057. hdl:2142/3784. S2CID 38806101.
Lor, Pieter (2013). "Burning Libraries for the People: Questions and Challenges for the Library Profession in South Africa" (PDF). Libri. 6 (4): 359–372. doi:10.1515/libri-2013-0028. S2CID 31109022. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
Ndumu, Ana; Mon, Lorraine (2018). "An investigation of the experiences of Nicaraguan Costeño librarians". IFLA Journal. 44 (2): 106–118. doi:10.1177/0340035218764496. ISSN 0340-0352.

elaph.com

""داعش" يحرق آلاف الكتب في الموصل والأنبار". elaph.com. 23 February 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.

elpais.com

"Un incendio durante los disturbios de El Cairo destruye el original de la 'Descripción de Egipto' encargada por Napoleón". El Pais (in Spanish). December 18, 2011. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved May 9, 2022.

evz.ro

"Legea recunoştinţei, made in Romania:agenţii represiunii ceauşiste au ajuns luptători remarcaţi". Evenimentul Zilei (in Romanian). June 3, 2010. Retrieved May 9, 2022.

ewn.co.za

Persens, Lizell (2021-04-18). "Fire wreaks destruction on UCT". Eyewitness News. Retrieved 2021-04-18.

fyifrance.com

Witt, Maria (September–October 2005). "The Strange Life of One of the Greatest European Libraries of the Eighteenth Century". FYI France. Archived from the original on March 1, 2021. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
Maria Witt (September–October 2005). "The Zaluski Collection in Warsaw". The Strange Life of One of the Greatest European Libraries of the Eighteenth Century. FYI France. Archived from the original on 2021-03-01. Retrieved 2008-02-17.

handle.net

hdl.handle.net

Riedlmayer, Andras J (2007). "Crimes of war, crimes of peace: destruction of libraries during and after the Balkan wars of the 1990s". Library Trends. 56 (1). Johns Hopkins University Press: 107–132. doi:10.1353/lib.2007.0057. hdl:2142/3784. S2CID 38806101.

home.pl

welcometo.home.pl

Lech Chmielewski. "In the House under the Sign of the Kings". Welcome to Warsaw. Archived from the original on 2009-02-03. Retrieved 2008-02-17.

ifla.org

Knuth, Rebecca (2006-06-27). Destroying a Symbol: Checkered History of Sri Lanka's Jaffna Public Library (PDF). IFLA. Retrieved 2008-08-30.

archive.ifla.org

"ICBS -Assessment of damage to Libraries and Archives in Iraq". Archived from the original on 14 August 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2014.

independent.co.uk

Withnall, Adam (7 September 2016). "'Nazi-style' book burning roundly condemned - but protesters say incident masks a bigger problem". The Independent. Retrieved 3 May 2021.

independent.com.mt

"Notarial Archives discovery: Documents from Gozo dating to 1431 saved from the bin". The Malta Independent. 23 May 2015. Archived from the original on 6 May 2019.

indianexpress.com

Brar, Kamaldeep Singh (20 June 2019). "Explained: The mystery of missing articles of Sikh Reference Library". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 25 December 2020.

iol.co.za

Tembo, Theolin (2021-04-18). "Some of our valuable collections at Jagger Library have been lost in the fire, says UCT libraries head". Independent Online (South Africa). Retrieved 2021-04-18.

iwpr.net

"Homepage". Institute for War & Peace Reporting. Archived from the original on September 22, 2019. Retrieved May 9, 2022.

jklaw.net

ensaaf-org.jklaw.net

Kaur, Jaskaran; Crossette, Barbara (2006).|http://ensaaf-org.jklaw.net/publications/reports/20years/20years-2nd.pdf

jstor.org

Mackensen, Ruth Stellhorn (January 1935). "Moslem Libraries and Sectarian Propaganda". The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 51 (2). The University of Chicago Press: 93–94. doi:10.1086/370447. JSTOR 528860. S2CID 170296340. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
Godley, Michael R. (1988). "Review of The Life and Times of Zhang Yuanji, 1867-1959 by Manying Ip". Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs: 415–418. doi:10.2307/2158575. JSTOR 2158575. Retrieved May 9, 2022.

koszykowa.pl

"Biblioteka na Koszykowej: O nas". Archived from the original on August 15, 2010. Retrieved July 9, 2021.

laacollective.org

"yoquepierdo: Preserving Memories from Nicaragua". Los Angeles Archivists Collective. 2019-07-14. Retrieved 2024-01-24.

lapl.org

"April 29 Marks 30th Anniversary of 1986 Fire". Los Angeles Public Library. Retrieved 13 March 2020.

loc.gov

"Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress". Library of Congress. 2006-03-06. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
"Thomas Jefferson's Library". Library of Congress. 11 April 2008. Retrieved 10 March 2020.

maravipost.com

"Mzuni library completely destroyed by fire". The Maravi Post. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

moeskn.org

"Charles A. Halbert Public Library". Ministry of Education Saint Christopher and Nevis. Archived from the original on October 8, 2011. Retrieved May 9, 2022.

muzhp.pl

bazhum.muzhp.pl

Strebel, Adam (1948). "Archives of Warsaw following the war" (PDF). Przegląd Historyczny. 37: 357–373. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

naharnet.com

"Tripoli Figures Condemn Torching Famed Library as Father Sarrouj 'Forgives Attackers'". Archived from the original on 2014-01-07.

ndl.go.jp

Amarasiri, Upali (2005). "Tsunami Affected Libraries in Sri Lanka: Rebuilding Process and Challenges" (PDF). Retrieved January 24, 2024.

newadvent.org

"The Alexandrian Library". New Advent. Retrieved May 9, 2022.

news1130.com

"Irreplaceable research lost from purged federal libraries: BC Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver says government didn't digitize entire libraries as promised". News1130. 6 January 2014.

nla.gov.au

trove.nla.gov.au

Moore, Scott (1983-02-16). "Fire brought death to house of tranquility". Trove. Retrieved 2024-03-13.

nybooks.com

Lewis, Bernard; Lloyd-Jones, Hugh. "The Vanished Library". The New York Review. Retrieved 5 December 2014.

opendevelopmentmekong.net

data.opendevelopmentmekong.net

"The Economic Impact of the 26 December 2004 Earthquake and Indian Ocean Tsunami in Thailand - OD Mekong Datahub". data.opendevelopmentmekong.net. Retrieved 2024-01-24.

oslobodjenje.ba

"Direktor Arhiva BiH tvrdi: Izgorjelo je 60 posto depoa". Oslobođenje. 13 February 2014. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.

politika.rs

Dejan Ristić (3 April 2016). "Hitler je naredio: prvo uništiti Narodnu biblioteku" [Hitler ordered: first destroy the National Library]. Politika (in Serbian).

progressivelibrariansguild.org

Norton, Daniel; Henk, Mandy; Fagin, Betsy; Taylor, Jaime; Loeb, Zachary (Spring 2012). "OCCUPY WALL STREET LIBRARIANS SPEAK OUT" (PDF). Progressive Librarian. 38/39 (38/39): 3–16. Retrieved 21 October 2018.

qz.com

"A Moscow library containing rare UN documents, ancient Slavic texts, and 14 million books is on fire". QUARTZ. 30 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.

sagepub.com

journals.sagepub.com

Ndumu, Ana; Mon, Lorraine (2018). "An investigation of the experiences of Nicaraguan Costeño librarians". IFLA Journal. 44 (2): 106–118. doi:10.1177/0340035218764496. ISSN 0340-0352.

scecsal.org

Dube, Gift Alfred B.; Kanyundo, Allan J.; Majawa, Felix P. "COPING WITH THE FIRE DISASTER AT MZUZU UNIVERSITY: EXPERIENCES FROM LIBRARIANS AND STUDENTS" (PDF). Scecsal. Retrieved 14 March 2020.

semanticscholar.org

api.semanticscholar.org

Mackensen, Ruth Stellhorn (January 1935). "Moslem Libraries and Sectarian Propaganda". The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 51 (2). The University of Chicago Press: 93–94. doi:10.1086/370447. JSTOR 528860. S2CID 170296340. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
Riedlmayer, Andras J (2007). "Crimes of war, crimes of peace: destruction of libraries during and after the Balkan wars of the 1990s". Library Trends. 56 (1). Johns Hopkins University Press: 107–132. doi:10.1353/lib.2007.0057. hdl:2142/3784. S2CID 38806101.
Lor, Pieter (2013). "Burning Libraries for the People: Questions and Challenges for the Library Profession in South Africa" (PDF). Libri. 6 (4): 359–372. doi:10.1515/libri-2013-0028. S2CID 31109022. Retrieved 22 July 2020.

shine.cn

Jiayun, Ke (March 15, 2018). "Bombed-out library with revolutionary past". Shanghai Daily. Retrieved May 9, 2022.

smithsonianmag.com

Solly, Meilan. "Glasgow School of Art Will Be Rebuilt, But Construction Could Last Up to a Decade". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 13 March 2020.

stateofmind13.com

"Lebanon Loses 78000 Books To Terrorism: Tripoli's "Al Sa'eh" Library Burned". Archived from the original on 2014-01-06.

sudbih.gov.ba

"Custody of the Suspects Hatibović and Trnka terminated and prohibiting measures ordered". Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2014.

theguardian.com

Fadhil, Muna (26 February 2015). "Isis destroys thousands of books and manuscripts in Mosul libraries". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
Harding, Luke (January 28, 2013). "Timbuktu mayor: Mali rebels torched library of historic manuscripts". The Guardian. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
Walker, Peter (January 28, 2013). "Timbuktu library is treasure house of centuries of Malian history". The Guardian. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
Walker, Peter (23 May 2014). "Glasgow School of Art fire: fire damages Charles Rennie Mackintosh building - as it happened". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
Brooks, Libby (26 November 2014). "Glasgow School of Art fire caused by gases from foam canister, says report". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden review – the libraries we have lost ; The Guardian; 31 August 2020; accessed 2020-09-02

thetyee.ca

Nikiforuk, Andrew (30 December 2013). "Secret Memo Casts Doubt on Feds' Claims for Science Library Closures: Goal stated is 'culling' research, not preserving and sharing through digitization". The Tyee. Retrieved May 9, 2022.

timesonline.co.uk

entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Kramer, Alan (2008). Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-1-84614-013-6.Gibson, Craig (2008). "The culture of destruction in the First World War". Times Literary Supplement. No. January 30, 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-18.

tportal.hr

"Sedmorica osumnjičena za paljenje Predsjedništva i Arhiva BiH" (in Croatian). tportal.hr. 9 March 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
"Ogromna šteta, dio dokumentacije nepovratno uništen". tportal.hr. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.

tribuneindia.com

"The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News".

uchicago.edu

oi.uchicago.edu

"Pictures of Damaged Libraries in Iraq". Archived from the original on 3 September 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
"MELA Committee on Iraqi Libraries". Archived from the original on 9 November 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2014.

unesco.org

Hoeven, Hans van der; Albada, Jan van (1996). "Lost memory: libraries and archives destroyed in the twentieth century". United Nations. Retrieved May 9, 2022.

up.ac.za

repository.up.ac.za

Lor, Pieter (2013). "Burning Libraries for the People: Questions and Challenges for the Library Profession in South Africa" (PDF). Libri. 6 (4): 359–372. doi:10.1515/libri-2013-0028. S2CID 31109022. Retrieved 22 July 2020.

warszawa1939.pl

"Dom pod Królami". warszawa1939.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2008-02-17.

web.archive.org

"Notarial Archives discovery: Documents from Gozo dating to 1431 saved from the bin". The Malta Independent. 23 May 2015. Archived from the original on 6 May 2019.
Witt, Maria (September–October 2005). "The Strange Life of One of the Greatest European Libraries of the Eighteenth Century". FYI France. Archived from the original on March 1, 2021. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
Lech Chmielewski. "In the House under the Sign of the Kings". Welcome to Warsaw. Archived from the original on 2009-02-03. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
Maria Witt (September–October 2005). "The Zaluski Collection in Warsaw". The Strange Life of One of the Greatest European Libraries of the Eighteenth Century. FYI France. Archived from the original on 2021-03-01. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
"Biblioteka na Koszykowej: O nas". Archived from the original on August 15, 2010. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
Brar, Kamaldeep Singh (20 June 2019). "Explained: The mystery of missing articles of Sikh Reference Library". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 25 December 2020.
"Related Articles". The Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project. Archived from the original on August 8, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
Riedlmayer, Andras (July 1995). "Erasing the Past: The Destruction of Libraries and Archives in Bosnia-Herzegovina". Archived from the original on January 18, 2012.
"Homepage". Institute for War & Peace Reporting. Archived from the original on September 22, 2019. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
"Abkhazia's archive: fire of war, ashes of history". YouTube. November 30, 2008. Archived from the original on July 29, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
"Prized Iraqi annals 'lost in blaze'". BBC. April 14, 2003. Archived from the original on August 27, 2011. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
"Pictures of Damaged Libraries in Iraq". Archived from the original on 3 September 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
"MELA Committee on Iraqi Libraries". Archived from the original on 9 November 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
"ICBS -Assessment of damage to Libraries and Archives in Iraq". Archived from the original on 14 August 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
"Un incendio durante los disturbios de El Cairo destruye el original de la 'Descripción de Egipto' encargada por Napoleón". El Pais (in Spanish). December 18, 2011. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
"Fleeing Islamists burn priceless Timbuktu library". Debkaflile. January 28, 2013. Archived from the original on January 29, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
"Lebanon Loses 78000 Books To Terrorism: Tripoli's "Al Sa'eh" Library Burned". Archived from the original on 2014-01-06.
"Tripoli Figures Condemn Torching Famed Library as Father Sarrouj 'Forgives Attackers'". Archived from the original on 2014-01-07.
"20 Pictures Of Al Sa'eh Library in Tripoli Before It Got Torched". Archived from the original on 2014-01-06.
"Direktor Arhiva BiH tvrdi: Izgorjelo je 60 posto depoa". Oslobođenje. 13 February 2014. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
"Charles A. Halbert Public Library". Ministry of Education Saint Christopher and Nevis. Archived from the original on October 8, 2011. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
"The Buildings of Dalhousie University – Weldon Law Building – Building History". Library.dal.ca. 1967-03-18. Archived from the original on 2016-01-07. Retrieved 2015-07-10.
"1994: Library fire wipes out historic records". BBC. August 1994. Archived from the original on October 3, 2003. Retrieved May 9, 2022.

worldcat.org

search.worldcat.org

Ndumu, Ana; Mon, Lorraine (2018). "An investigation of the experiences of Nicaraguan Costeño librarians". IFLA Journal. 44 (2): 106–118. doi:10.1177/0340035218764496. ISSN 0340-0352.

yahoo.com

finance.yahoo.com

"ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul". Yahoo Finance (The Fiscal Times). 23 February 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2015.

youtube.com

The Smoking Gun Recovered, United Sikhs documentary"|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6AFP1NiF-U
"Abkhazia's archive: fire of war, ashes of history". YouTube. November 30, 2008. Archived from the original on July 29, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2022.