Biblioclastia: Controlled Vocabulary for broadening and deepening the Concept

CAICYT’s institutional project on biblioclastia created a broad definition of the phenomenon of knowledge destruction. Biblioclastia is understood not only as the destruction of books and other media to knowledge, but also as the deprivation of rights of institutions and agents responsible for insuring their preservation and circulation. The proposed definition is explained, and both a methodology and a controlled vocabulary are presented.

The authors, Mela Bosch and Tatiana Carsen, manage the CAICYT- CONICET (Centre for Scientific and Technological Information) in Argentina.