Living Knowledge: British Library’s Save our Sounds campaign
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Channel: British Library · 2015 · Education
British Library Chief Executive Roly Keating talks about how the National Sound Archive (based at the Library) has 6.5m recordings which is growing all the time. It is currently held on 40 or more different formats, some of which will be illegible in 15 years. Roly Keating talks about the importance of digitisation and partnerships for this important collection. An extract of Roly Keating’s speech from the launch of Living Knowledge, the British Library’s vision for its future as it looks ahead to 2023.
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