To match that, Sony has partnered with OverDrive, a distributor of e-books to libraries, to offer its customers easy access to the local library's collection of e-books.
During World War II, Lambeth Palace's Great Hall - which housed much of the library's early collection - took a direct hit from an incendiary bomb.
Water-damaged pieces of the library's historic collection were moved to Oxford by a team of salvage experts following the fire on 26 April.
The library's entire collection of printed books has been estimated to total about 10 terabytes of data (although staff at the library suspect it's probably more).
"The Packard Campus and its employees will work hard to protect the Library's comprehensive collection and make these recordings accessible to the American people and this generous contribution by Universal Music will help preserve our nation's rich cultural heritage, " said Congressman Eric Cantor, Majority Leader for the 112thCongress and U.S. Representative from the 7thDistrict of Virginia, which includes Culpeper.
Greg Budney, audio curator at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library, a renowned collection of recorded bird song, says he has had requests to use the collection for medical purposes but hasn't heard of bird song being used to fight crime.
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On Tuesday, he said he saw two gunmen looking at the plaque outside his house: It reads "Biblioteque de Manuscripts, " or manuscript library, a reference to his grandfather's parchment collection.
Totaling in excess of 5, 000 linear feet, UMG's gift is the largest single donation ever received by the Library's audio-visual division and the first major collection of studio master materials ever obtained by the nation's oldest cultural institution.
The college became known instead for its Bunting Institute for female scholars, artists and archivists, and for the Schlesinger Library, whose collection is devoted exclusively to American women's history.
McCabe is curator of manuscripts for the Archives and Special Collections division at the university's Alden Library in Athens, Ohio, where the Cornelius Ryan Collection is housed.
"With Amazon Cloud Player, Roku customers have the ability to directly access their music collection, including any music purchased from Amazon's library of more than 22 million audio tracks, on their TVs, " said Ed Lee, Vice President of Content Acquisition at Roku.
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Scholars are astounded by the depth and scope of the collection, whichis housed in a library attached to Aunt Mary's New Jersey home.
Now a collection of the inventor's personal belongings, including his library of scientific books, a cluster of scientific instruments and a letter documenting the teakettle incident are all coming up for sale at Sotheby's London on March 20.
The Library of Congress has rescued New Orleans public radio station WWOZ's extensive live broadcast collection.
Portions of Yoshio Kishi's collection will be available to scholars and the general public at NYU's library.
Commerce's proposal includes transferring NTIS' paper, microfiche and digital collection and bibliographic database to the Library of Congress.
The Library of Congress recently opted to preserve the album in its musical collection as one of the country's most culturally significant audio recordings.
When I was doing doctoral research in the late 1980s, the University of Jordan housed a massive collection of books in what was then called the "forbidden room" of the school's library.
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