The Library of Congress stores historic audio and video recordings in secure vaults . Many cultural artifacts are decaying and must be transferred from analog to digital . `` We have this entire campus ... for the preservation of the audio-visual heritage of the United States , '' said Gregory Lukow , chief of the library 's Motion Picture , Broadcasting and Recorded Sound division . With more than 5 million items , it 's an impressive collection . But the library is also a repository for many other things that people want access to : books, music, movies, etc ... Comment:
The Library of Congress stores historic audio and video recordings in secure vaults . Many cultural artifacts are decaying and must be transferred from analog to digital . With more than 5 million items , it 's an impressive collection . But the library is also a repository for many other things that people want access to : books, music, movies, etc... Comment: