 They would periodically visit the studio music departments and encourage departmental personnel not to discard any material before a new home could be found for it, such as colleges or universities, institutions where collections of other film-related material had already been established.In time Steiner believed that there should be a national organization to promote greater public awareness of this precious and unique cultural legacy and to preserve its heritage.The tragic historical lesson of the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt being burned was that as long as only one copy of a book exists, it is not safe from destruction.