page_title: National Recording Registry
section_title: 2009
hierarchical_section_title: National Recording Registry / Inductees / 2009
caption_attribution_description: English: Patti Smith performing im Mannheim, Rosengarten, Germany
context_page_description: The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress. The recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry form a registry of recordings selected yearly by the National Recording Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress.
  The National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 established a national program to guard America's sound recording heritage. The Act created the National Recording Registry, The National Recording Preservation Board and a fund-raising foundation. The purpose of the Registry is to maintain and preserve sound recordings and collections of sound recordings that are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Beginning in 2002, the National Recording Preservation Board has selected recordings nominated each year to be preserved.
  The first four yearly lists each had 50 selections.
context_section_description: On June 23, 2010, the following 25 selections were made by the National Recording Preservation Board.
caption: Patti Smith was one of punk rock's poetic pioneers.
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