Book Burning research
Photograph of Nazi's burning books and associated links via ALA site

Book Burning in the 20th Century—1933, ALA, viewed 24th August,
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/bannedbooksweek/bookburning/20thcentury/nazigermany/nazigermany.cfm.


Found a poll & discussion thread on about.com under a forum called children's books
Titled 'Who should Censor Your Children's Books? ' This  discussion thread makes for interesting reading.

childrensbooksADM,Jan 06 02 06:03 PM, viewed 24th August 2010,
http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages&webtag=ab-chldrnsbooks&tid=170
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Research begins

Libricide: “the killing of a book”.

At the moment research on Libricide is pointing towards author Rebecca Knuth and her book
`Libricide : the regime-sponsored destruction of books and libraries in the twentieth century`
published in 2003
Knuth, Rebecca, 2003,Libricide : the regime-sponsored destruction of books and libraries in the twentieth century,Praeger,Westport, Conn.

For book censorhip

Using The Australian Library Journal via GALE databases
I found an interesting transcript of an interview with author Pearce Carefoote, ( released book 'Forbidden Fruit: Banned, Censored and Challenged Books from Dante to Harry Potter' in 2007) who states "Book banning is on the wane in Western liberal societies, but the number of challenges against books has never been higher"

Challenges to books on the rise, author says (Broadcast transcript),Nov 26, 2007, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Viewed August 13th, 2010, from General OneFile via Gale:
http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/gps/start.doprodId=IPS&userGroupName=swinburne1


Even found a website that maps books banned across the USA
http://bannedbooksweek.org/Mapofbookcensorship.html
I have not yet found a similar a site for Australia.

Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2010,viewed 13th August,
http://bannedbooksweek.org/Mapofbookcensorship.html

Hi all

This my very first blog, so be gentle with your comments :)

The topic for this blog  is based on a research topic 'book burnings and the history of censorship' for my course research skills 2.
Starting point for my research was to find a definition of book burning or biblioclasm/libricide, other forms of book censorship
From there i hope to find the history of biblioclasm and how this effects society as a form of censorship.
The why is most most interesting angle so I'll combine this too...