1. Armed gunmen raid salvadoran human rights organization, burn archives
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   Armed gunmen raid Salvadoran human rights organization Pro-Busqueda just months after abrupt closure of Archdiocese's human rights office, Tutela Legal. Human rights defenders see actions as effort to destroy war crimes documentation in light of Supreme Court challenge to Amnesty Law.
2. Burning History in San Salvador
   Destruction of Historical and Human Rights Archives
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   On Thursday, Nov. 14, three armed men broke into the offices of Pro-Búsqueda. The attack on Pro-Búsqueda was not a random crime. We should be worried about what is happening in El Salvador.
3. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1977
   
4. The Case for Grassroots Archives
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
5. From Cave Paintings to the Internet
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media.
6. Google can't be trusted to look after our books
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2011
   The author warns that Google's lack of accountability to the public could put its digital collection in jeopardy should it become too expensive to maintain. He argues that the protection of cultural resources should be in the hands of the public sector.
7. Kill The Messengers
   Stephen Harper's Assault on Your Right to Know
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2015
   Ottawa has become a place where the nation's business is done in secret, and access to information - the lifeblood of democracy in Canada - is under attack.
8. Librarians and Palestine
   An Interview with Vani Natarajan
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   Working to preserve Palestinian records and memory in the face of deliberate destruction by Israel.
9. List of destroyed libraries
   Wikipedia article
   Resource Type: Article
   Libraries have been deliberately or accidentally destroyed or badly damaged. Sometimes a library is purposely destroyed as a form of cultural cleansing.
10. Lost Memory: Libraries and Archives destroyed in the Twentieth Century
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    This document lists major disasters that have destroyed or caused irreparable damage during the 20th century to libraries and archives, whether written of audio-visual.
11. Mali: Timbuktu's literary gems face Islamists and decay in fight for survival
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Daring by a dedicated few saved many manuscripts in Mali from Islamists.
12. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
    Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
13. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
    Working class organizing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
14. Whose Archive? Whose History? Destruction of Archives at Ruskin College, Oxford
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A repository of lived experience of the trade union and labour movement of the twentieth century is being deliberately trashed.

Experts on Information Destruction in the Sources Directory

1. Internet Archive