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== Sound archive ==
[[Image:BL Sound Archive tapes-2.jpg|thumb|Tape players used in the British Library Sound Archives, 2009 photo.]]

''See Also [[British Library Sound Archive}]]''

The British Library Sound Archive holds more than a million discs and 185,000 tapes.<sup>[35]</sup> The collections come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound from music, drama and literature to oral history and wildlife sounds, stretching back over more than 100 years. The Sound Archive's online catalogue is updated daily.

It is also possible to listen to recordings from the collection in selected Reading Rooms in the Library through their ''SoundServer''<sup>[36]</sup> and ''Listening and Viewing Service'', which is based in the Rare Books & Music Reading Room.<sup>[37]</sup>

In 2006 the Library launched a new online resource [[Archival Sound Recordings]] which makes over 4,200 hours of the Sound Archive's recordings available online for UK higher and further education.<sup>[38]</sup>