In the autumn of 2000 the Lost Libraries Conference examined the impact of the loss of great book collections throughout history. A wide range of subjects and cultures were examined from ancient Mesopotamia and classical Greece to Nazi confiscations and modern China. A volume of essays drawn from the conference has been published as James Raven (ed.), Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Chapters include:-
- Jeremy Black (University of Oxford), Lost Libraries of Ancient Mesopotamia
- T. Keith Dix (University of Georgia), Aristotle’s ‘Peripatetic Library’
- Nigel Ramsay (University of London), The Libraries of Pre-Reformation England
- Martyn Rady (University of London), The Corvina Library and Hungary’s Lost Royal Archive
- Richard Kremer (Dartmouth College), Text to Trophy: Shifting Functions for Regiomontanus’s Library
- David Rundle (University of Oxford) The Dispersal of the Library of Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester
- Martin Roland (University of Vienna) The Bürgerschule of Vienna
- Friedrich Buchmayr (Monastery of Sankt Florian) Sakularization and Monastic Libraries in Austria
- Dominique Varry (ENSSIB, Lyons) Revolutionary Seizures and their Consequences on French Library History
- Clarissa Campbell Orr (Anglia Polytechnic University) Hanoverian Royal Libraries
- Margaret Connolly (University College, Cork) Dispersal and Disappearance of Church of Ireland Diocesan Libraries
- Sem C. Sutter (University of Chicago) Nazi Confiscations
- Robert J. Fyne (Kean University) Fahrenheit 451