Re: BL - enduring copyright means no copying of multi-media - period, and if available only supervised personal on-site access is allowed to some recordings.

Its the same with the LOC and such as the newly rediscovered tape of the BBC / Langston / Lomax "The Man Who Went To War." Access is only for those in person in situ. Indeed both prohibits non-academic access to recordings deposited such as TMWWTW and such as the Howson's collection of recordings of trad. folk singers and musicians.

On the other hand the RVWML used to allow (srill does?) non-members and even those from overseas such as from the USA, as in the recent past, to 'borrow' much of its holdings. And in the past thousands of items were never returned. Don't ever mention missing items with RVWML staff, such as when did they last conduct an audit, and what was missing?