Stanford Archive Of Recorded Sound (STARS)

Stanford Archive Of Recorded Sound (STARS) The Archive of Recorded Sound, established in 1958 and located at Stanford University, was one of the first major institutional sound collections devoted to the acquisition and preservation of sound recordings. It houses more than 200,000 recordings in formats ranging from wax cylinders to compact discs. Commercial 78-rpm and LP discs, as well as private tape recordings, comprise the majority of the collection. It has worked with other major U.S. sound…