Audio-Visual Conservation (Library of Congress Packard Campus, Culpeper, Virginia) || The Packard Campus || Located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Culpeper, Virginia, the Library's newly completed Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center 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. This week, we’re bringing you a selection of original reviews of classic literature. One way to recapture our sense of wonder is to look back at the first impressions these books made on the world. With the passage of time, even the most groundbreaking works of literature can grow familiar. Sunday Reading: Critics on the Classics “ ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book.” That was how the critic Lionel Trilling characterized George Orwell’s classic dystopian tale when it was originally published, in 1949. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. Recorded Sound Section Online Collections National Jukebox The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. To listen to recordings that are unavailable online, contact the Recorded Sound Reference Center. Online Collections and Presentations The Library provides access to a portion of its audio collections through the Recorded Sound Reference Center's web page, the American Memory site, The Performing Arts Encyclopedia and the American Folklife Center pages. I have made most of my career in the classroom, and I have enjoyed it. I am preparing to teach again after a bit of a break. Learning to Teach by Learning Badly: Lessons in Bookbinding A role reversal is among the best means to learn.

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