Our National Jukebox

in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains

The National Jukebox, makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge.¹ The Jukebox includes recordings from the collections of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and other contributing libraries and archives.

Here is a national Jukebox sampler.

You can see what was recorded on any given day of the year. Check your birthday, an anniversary, or any other month and day of interest.

The Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation (Library of Congress Packard campus in Culpepper, Va) provides underground storage for this entire collection on 90 miles of shelving, together with extensive modern facilities for the acquisition, cataloging and preservation of all audio-visual formats.

Library of Congress Packard Campus, Culpeper, Va.

The Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center is a state-of-the-art facility where the Library of Congress acquires, preserves and provides access to the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of films, television programs, radio broadcasts, and sound recordings. ²

1. Library of Congress. National Jukebox.

2. The Campus has globally unprecedented capabilities and capacities for the preservation reformatting of all audiovisual media formats (including obsolete formats dating back 100 years) and their long-term safekeeping in a petabyte-level digital storage archive. In addition to preserving the collections of the Library, the Packard Campus was also designed to provide similar preservation services for other archives and libraries in both the public and private sector.