Last week thousands of traditional and classical music and spoken word recordings, plus images of historic recordings and playback equipment, were added to the British Library's Archival Sound Recordings website at http://sounds.bl.uk/.
The Archival Sound Recordings website provides free access to 45,500 rare recordings and thousands of images of record labels and early record catalogues available for UK university and college researchers.
23,700 of the recordings are available to anyone worldwide. Users are invited to contribute to the website's blog at http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/archival_sounds/
Archival Sound Recordings is part of JISC’s £22 million digitisation programme www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation
