THE DESTRUCTION OF A SYMBOL OF BOSNIAN MULTICULTURAL IDENTITY
For decades, the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina represented one of the most important cultural and scientific places of the country.
In the night from 25th to 26 August 1992, the library was completely destroyed by fire have having been shell by the Serbian army. More than 1 million of books and precious manuscripts went up in flames. A huge chapter of history of the country was lost forever.
Below you can find a selection of open access papers providing more details about the destruction of the library.
Riedlmayer, A. 1995. Erasing the past: The destruction of libraries and archives in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Review of Middle East Studies, 29(1), 7-11.
Riedlmayer, A. 1996. Libraries are not for burning: international librarianship and the recovery of the destroyed heritage of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Art Libraries Journal, 21(2), 19-23.
Kuntz, B. 2012. The Politics of Cultural Genocide: Uses and Abuses of the Destruction of the National Library of Bosnia-Herzegovina as a Western Propaganda Tool. Progressive Librarian, (40), 91.