Archives Card Catalog Culture History Literature

Card catalog

Created in 1958 in Brussels, the Archives and Museum of Literature is a centre for documentation and research of the published heritage of French-speaking Belgium. It is dealing with theatre, novels, short-stories,...

In addition to its online databases, the old wooden card catalog in the reading room is still an important tool for the researcher. A few dozen drawers contain bibliographical informations about 30 years of acquisitions, from 1958 to 1989. They will soon disappear, and with them a very particular sound which had been familiar to so many scholars.

Video and sound recordist : Gaƫlle Courtois / La Fonderie, Brussels

Specs:

Decade:
Filesize:
Duration:
Channels:
1950s
7.8 MB
43 s
2 (Stereo)
Sample rate:
Bit rate:
Bit depth:
44.1 kHz
1414 kb/s
16 bit

Recorded on January 13, 2015
Library
Belgium, BRUSSELS
Creative Commons License

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