---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 1712"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "1712"
heading: "Promoting accessibility and public awareness of sound recordings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/1712"
units:
  - "Chapter 27 — Sound Recording Preservation by the Library of Congress"
  - "Subchapter II — National Sound Recording Preservation Program"
---

# §1712. Promoting accessibility and public awareness of sound recordings


The [Librarian](/usc/2/1741.md?p=1) shall carry out activities to make [sound recordings](/usc/2/1741.md?p=3) included in the National Recording Registry more broadly accessible for research and educational purposes and to generate public awareness and support of the Registry and the comprehensive national [sound recording](/usc/2/1741.md?p=3) preservation program established under this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–474, title I, § 112, Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2088.)