Word: microfilm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...computer-indexed, microfilm archive of intelligence reports, newspaper clippings, and other records of political protest and civil disturbances at the CIAD headquarters in Alexandria...
...Hire yourself a private railway train"). The editor-owner of Servicio de Information Pan Americana, an obscure public relations service, and an operator in real estate and advertising, Dormann set up the library in 1965 for the grand purpose of collecting all possible presidential documents, either in original or microfilm form, and of providing New York headquarters for the President and his staff...
...small point that Dormann and his sponsors seemed to miss was the fact that the Government, through the Library of Congress and the National Archives, already does an excellent job of attending to presidential papers. Moreover, microfilm of many such papers exists in more than 100 U.S. libraries, and copies of specific documents are available cheaply to scholars...
...Correspondent Neil MacNeil found that the sixth floor contains what was meant to be the presidential bedroom. Lacking Presidents who want to sleep there, it has been converted into a conference area called "The Teddy Roosevelt Room"; it has a moosehead. The fourth floor contains the library's microfilm collection; it occupies a single drawer and consists of copied George Washington papers. There are three study rooms there, but not a single book on their many shelves...