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hi I'm Anne Kenny the Carl a croc University Librarian and I'm standing in one of my absolute favorite places on campus the vault of the division of rare and manuscript collections it's home to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address early drafts of Charlotte's Web Shakespeare's for first folios and the personal papers of dr. Joyce brothers also stored here is a vast array of audio-visual materials yes we have films of the wonders of winter on campus through the decades major sporting events and lectures by some of the world's most influential faculty but did you know that we have the earliest footage of the birth of hip hop in the troubled neighborhoods of the Bronx or the last public presentation by Jimmy Hoffa who lectured on cornell campus shortly before he disappeared these and other audio-visual treasures are stored on fragile media and will not last we must act now to ensure their survival and access well into the future a recent campus-wide survey identified over 220,000 unique and or at-