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Article: British Library's blast from the past.
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- Information World Review
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- June 4, 2007
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Byline: Daniel Griffin
British Library's blast from the past
Over the past two years, the British Library has embarked on a large-scale digitisation of its sound archives, making the content freely available online for the further and higher education communities. In the process, many rare and unique files have appeared for the first time.
The 11 sound collections on the website range in length and subject matter but broadly consist of in-the-field recordings such as painter David Rycroft's Africa and music academic Klaus Wachsmann's Uganda
Interviews make up the bulk of many of the collections, such as Art and Design, and the Oral ...