I am currently reading Library by Matthew Battles. He uses the word 'biblioclasm', meaning a mass destruction of books, and says in the endnotes that he found this word in a work published in the year 2000 by somebody called Martin Kern and says:

... his work also introduced me to the very useful word word "biblioclasm" (which seems his own coinage).

However, on googling biblioclasm, I found this:

"Biblioclasm," which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as the deliberate destruction of books, a cultural offense of the first magnitude.

http://www.nicholasbasbanes.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=18

Could someone with an OED check the history of this word, please?

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