---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 1701"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "1701"
heading: "National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/1701"
units:
  - "Chapter 27 — Sound Recording Preservation by the Library of Congress"
  - "Subchapter I — National Recording Registry"
---

# §1701. National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress


The [Librarian](/usc/2/1741.md?p=1) of Congress shall establish the National Recording Registry for the purpose of maintaining and preserving [sound recordings](/usc/2/1741.md?p=3) that are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–474, title I, § 101, Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2085.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 106–474, § 1, Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2085, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter and chapter 1524 of Title 36, Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations] may be cited as the ‘National Recording Preservation Act of 2000’.”