British Library Fights To Preserve Historic Recordings Archive
As part of its vast appeal of literary and historic treasure ( the Magna Carta , Leonardo da Vinci ’s notebook ) , theBritish Libraryowns some six million sound recordings , including significant theater production , famous voices ( like J.R.R. Tolkien ’s ) , and field recordings of extinct animals . Some of them see back to the earliest and most fragile days of recording applied science . Now , as theTelegraphreports , the library is plunge an urgent run to digitalize and preserve its collection ....