New article: ‘The Sun was Obscured by the Smoke of Books’: Libraries and Memory Institutions in Conflict Since the End of the Cold War”

Issue three of the Faculty of Information Quarterly is online. Now you can read my article, “‘The Sun was Obscured by the Smoke of Books’: Libraries and Memory Institutions in Conflict Since the End of the Cold War” (HTML version or PDF version). This paper was originally created as a conference paper, then submitted in a course and then it became this article. The thesis, in brief, is that war and other conflicts reveal much about the role of libraries and other cultural institutions (and how society is badly weakened and damaged when libraries are damaged).

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1. Housing Memory Conference at the University of Toronto: Day 1
2. Libraries in Haiti
3. Do School Libraries Need Books? (NY Times Blog)
4. Housing Memory Conference: Day Two