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Robert Berkman at the Pianola
Audiovisual Archives and Special Collections - Europe
- Bavarian State Library - Musicians' ArchivesAlmost 300 archives of musicians are partly or exclusively held by the Music Department of the Bavarian State Library.
- Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound RecordingsThe Archives holds films, photographs and sound recordings illustrating the history of Belarus throughout one hundred years. These are documentary photographs of the pre-revolutionary period, World War I, World War II, and the contemporary period, film documents since 1918, and sound recordings since 1940.
- Cecilia: Mapping the Music Resources of the UK and IrelandCecilia is an on-line guide to music collections in archives, libraries, and museums in the United Kingdom and Ireland
- Center for Research in EthnomusicologyThe archives of the Center for Research in Ethnomusicology (CREM) hold nearly 3,500 hours of recordings of unpublished field and approximately 3700 hours of material published (more than 5000 discs, many of which are very rare).
- DIGMA - Digital Greek Music ArchiveThe Greek Music Archive (part of the Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”) includes ancient, Byzantine, folk, rembetiko and scholarly Greek music.
- Estonian Film ArchivesHolds more than 7000 sound recordings from Estonian Radio, Central Archive of Phono Documents of the USSR and Riga Record Factory. Original tapes of records produced by Tallinn Record Studio have been registered since 1959. Together with the production of Riga Record Factory and Tallinn Audiocassette Factory, a collection has been formed that contains the majority of Estonian recordings produced here after World War II.
- Institut National de l'AudiovisuelCreated in 1974, the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA) archives, digitizes, and safeguards the audiovisual assets of France.
- Irish Music Center of the John J. Burns Library, Boston CollegeThe Irish Music Center of the John J. Burns Library is an archival and listening center, committed to documenting the history of Irish traditional music in America. The center's archives include commercial and field recordings, videorecordings, sheet music, manuscripts, photographs, memorabilia, and books about music.
- Istituto Centrale Per I Beni Sonori Ed AudiovisiviThe Istituto Centrale Per I Beni Sonori Ed Audiovisivi (L'ICBSA) documents and preserves Italy's national audiovisual history and holds over 330,000 audio recordings.
- National Audiovisual Archives at the Galgóczi Erzsébet City LibraryThe National Audiovisual Archives (NAVA) at the Galgóczi Erzsébet City Library collect and broadcast Hungarian produced or Hungarian related national television and radio programs. These archives started their operation in January 2006.
- National Library of Scotland Digital ArchiveScotland's largest library, it houses 14 million printed items, over 100,000 manuscripts, two million maps, and 25,000 newspaper and magazine titles in 490 languages. Thousands of photographs, maps, music, books, manuscripts and more are available via their Digital Archive.
- National Screen and Sound Archive of WalesThe aim of the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales is to preserve, promote and celebrate the sound and moving image heritage of Wales. The Archive’s collection is varied and encompasses every aspect of the culture and life of Wales and its people as chronicled by audio-visual media in sound, video, film and the latest digital formats.
- Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision - Beeld en GeluidSound and Vision preserves a major part of Dutch audio-visual heritage. The collection contains over 700,000 hours of television, radio, music and film, 20,000 objects and more than 2,5 million photos. The institute collects, preserves and opens up the audiovisual archive for as many users as possible: media professionals, education, science and the general public.
- North West Sound ArchiveNWSA, based at Clitheroe Castle, Lancashire, records, collects and preserves sound recordings of the life, character, history and traditions of North West England. Currently the Archive holds over 140,000 recordings relating to all aspects of north west life.
- Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) ArchivesRTÉ Archives are responsible for collecting, preserving and making accessible the creative and documentary output of Ireland's national broadcaster. Combining hundreds of thousands of hours of moving image and sound recordings together with significant collections of photographs, manuscripts and administrative documents, RTÉ Archives contain a unique record of Irish life.
- School of Scottish Studies Sound Archive, University of EdinburghThe School of Scottish Studies was established in 1951 at the University of Edinburgh to collect, archive, research and publish material relating to the cultural life, folklore and traditional arts of Scotland. Over the past sixty years, fieldworkers at the School have made thousands of recordings of songs, instrumental music, tales, verse, customs, beliefs, place-names biographical information and local history. Material in the Sound Archive comes from all over Scotland and its diaspora, and as well as being a rich repository of oral tradition it is invaluable for its range of dialects and accents in Gaelic, Scots and English.
- Scottish Screen ArchiveThe Scottish Screen Archive is a film and video collection of over 100 years of Scotland's history. The archive reflects 20th-century Scottish social, cultural, and industrial history; the lives of ordinary Scots across the generations; and the achievements of Scottish film-makers in the craft of film production.
- Swiss National Sound ArchivesThe Swiss National Sound Archives collects and catalogs audio documents related to the history and culture of Switzerland, both music and speech, for example: recordings of classical music, rock, jazz and pop, audio books, stories, theatrical works, interviews, research documents (field recordings) and private collections.
- University of Zurich Ethnomusicology ArchiveContains approximately 12,000 sound recordings and 7000 books and journals from the fields of non-European music, European folk music and popular music. The Archive also houses a jazz collection with 4000 sound recordings.
- ViFaMusik: the Virtual Library of MusicologyA project of the Bavarian State Library, the German Musicological Society, and the State Institute for Musicological Research.
- Wessex Film and Sound ArchiveAt Wessex Film and Sound Archive (WFSA) you can see and hear history, from late Victorian times to the present day, through moving images and sound recordings. The Archive contains over 35,000 film and sound recordings relating to central southern England, including film and tapes of local TV and radio.