From The Wire magazine's site, a short video tour of the underground recesses of the British Library's sound archive and the attempts of some truly dedicated folk to preserve exceedingly rare recordings for posterity. "The 20th century was about audiovisual material, our memory of the 20th century is heavily audiovisual, but our sense of the 21st century is going to be a different kind of audiovisual... archiving is not going to be so much about what we can bring in, but about what to exclude," according to Will Prentice, British Library Audio Engineer.
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