Sorting of research - collation of ideas

Got a little off track over the last few weeks so for those still interesting. Here goes a fresh start.

I set out to find out about each word i.e Libricide, Biblioclasm, Book Censorship.

I have learn't that Biblioclasm and libricide are very similar one meaning the the extreme criticism or destruction of books(see Link 1) and the other meaning the destruction of books(see Link 2). Book censorship falls in between, being straight out criticism in the form of not allowing books to be read because of content.

Link 1 Definition of Biblioclasm
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/biblioclasm?qsrc=2446

Link 2 Definition of Libricide
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/libricide

And then what effects these types of book destruction and criticism have had, are having on society.

This is still a work in progress and everytime I search the internet another article or item of interest is found. Books effect so many lives in so many different ways.

Recently I came across this item about the Jaffna Library in Sri Lanka(Link 3). On May 31, 1981 a mob of paramilitias and police during a time of great civil unrest set fire to the Jaffna pubic library destroying the library and its 97,000 volumes including many cuturally and regionally irreplaceable items.

Image courtesy of http://www.answers.com/topic/burning-of-jaffna-library

Link 3:  Full Story of the Jaffna public library destruction
http://www.answers.com/topic/burning-of-jaffna-library

This recent destruction which I had never heard of got me interested in how many other libraries have been destroy and if any more recent destruction had occured.  The answer (Link 4) is unfortunately yes the most recent destruction was in Iraq in National Library and Archive in 2003 during the Iraq war. As in most wars libraries are an innocent bystander with no defence and are usually targeted by mistake as a government building.

Link 4: Timeline of Libraries that have been destroyed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_libraries

The Jaffna public library has been restored to its fomerly glory after 20 years of neglect and some shelling damage. With international help the collection is also being restored.

Next posting will go further into effects on society and hopefully help me work out how everything ties together.

Recent exhibitions relating to banned books

http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/exhibitions/bannedbooks/exhibition/schoolbook.html

http://arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/conferences/deprave-and-corrupt/


While research banned books in Australia,  I came across this book titled "The little red school book" that caused alot of controversy in the early 1970's, this one book got the entire Australian population up in arms.

http://www.guba.com/watch/3000095780/The-Book-That-Shook-The-World
Video

http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn4512714
Digital copy of “The little red school book”
Hansen, Soren. The little red school book [electronic resource]. [by] Soren Hansen and Jesper Jenson ; Translated from Danish by Berit Thornberry, 1973.

By watching the video and looking at the content of the book, I can see that if this book was to be published now it wouldn't even get a mention in a newspaper or news broadcast. Most student run newspapers cover the type of topics that appear in "The little red school book" and these are widely accepted and not a all controversial.
Apparently the current Australian classification act:
"Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995"
Will restrict any publication/film or computer game if it "advocates terrorist acts"
http://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/ActCompilation1.nsf/0/0C5B4BE98AF769E1CA25775F007C2EA7?OpenDocument

 Reflection time:

As I dig deeper into my chosen topics I find more and more information and links that take me to information I had no knowledge of before I started this. I 'm just now feeling overwhelmed by what I thought was a straight forward topic. I keep getting caught up each time I research in what seems a small alley that opens up into an ocean of information, that drowns me and so thoroughly absorbs me that I find it hard to put together a small amount of what I find here on this blog to present to you.  I can only hope that my content so far is interesting and ina somewhat logical progression, if not please comment :)