Our cultural treasury, preserved by the Library of Congress, is vast and unpredictable. It includes “Casablanca” with Bogie and the only live concert recording of jazzmen Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. But there’s also Bea Arthur as an alien cantina chanteuse in a legendarily awful “Star Wars” TV special from 1978. And in recent years, Islamic recordings via the al-Jazeera channel. regory Lukow, chief of the library’s Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, has overseen the centralization of 5.7 million such audio and visual artifacts at a repurposed Cold War-era government bunker in Culpeper. This new National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, in addition to its temperature-controlled vaults, features a specially developed robotic preservation system that will make items available faster to scholars and the public.
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