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Launched in January 2015, 'Save our Sounds' is the British Library’s initiative to preserve and make available rare and unique sound recordings, create a radio archive and create a technical infrastructure that will allow born digital music to be preserved.
The British Library Sounds website covers a broad range of content: Accents and dialects of spoken English, including extracts from the Survey of English Dialects, the Millennium Memory Bank of personal oral histories, the Berliner Lautarchiv of British World War I prisoners, crowdsourced public contributions of accents, BBC Voices project and a 1940s University College London phonetics ...
The British Library Sounds service provides free online access for UK higher and further education institutions to over 90,000 rare recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments. 65% of these recordings are also freely accessible for public listening online.
UCLA Music Library – 4,593 records; Sheet Music Consortium: Sibley Music Library: 18th-century, French, opera: 8,643 Public domain scores and books. Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester: Tablature in PDF and PostScript: lute, tab: 75 Lute music available in EPS, PDF, MIDI, or TAB format. Wayne Cripps of Dartmouth College ...
In 2005, the British Library, The National Archives, Wellcome Trust, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales and JISC formed the UK Web Archiving Consortium, a project to archive websites. [3] UKWAC archived selected websites by license or permission, using PANDAS software developed by the National Library of Australia.
It is a multi-media library comprising books, periodicals, audio-visual materials, photographic images and sound recordings, as well as manuscripts, field notes, transcriptions etc. of a number of collectors of folk music and dance traditions in the British Isles. [3]
The British Library was created on 1 July 1973 as a result of the British Library Act 1972. [13] Prior to this, the national library was part of the British Museum , which provided the bulk of the holdings of the new library, alongside smaller organisations which were folded in (such as the National Central Library , [ 14 ] the National Lending ...
The British Catalogue of Music Classification (BCM Classification) [1] is a faceted classification that was commissioned from E. J. Coates by the Council of the British National Bibliography to organize the content of the British Catalogue of Music. [2]