Take a Quick Look: "The New BBC Archive Centre at Perivale"

From the BBC Blog:

The BBC archive is a rich historical resource that can track the evolution of broadcasting in documents, radio programmes, television programmes, photos, sheet music and vinyl collections. It really is one of the largest broadcast archives in the world (well over 12 million items in total). It is held on multiple tape/film/sound formats and it needs to be housed in appropriate climate controlled vaults in order to prevent the tape and film stock degrading over time. The new BBC archive centre has 9 climate controlled vaults which can be individually adjusted for temperature and relative humidity. If all the racking in the vaults in Perivale was laid in a straight line it would extend for over 60 miles.

The complete blog post includes 3 images.
See Also: “A new home for the BBC Archive” (From August 20, 2010)
See Also: (Podcast): “Creating a Digital Public Space”

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