Word: microfilm
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...left Cracow walking, carrying on a roll of microfilm 38 pages of plans and suggestions from the underground. His guide was worried, gloomy, reluctant. They slogged through the mud for three days. Karski could not go on, though the border of Hungary was only 15 miles away. They spent the night in a village. Karski was awakened by a gun butt mashed against his skull. He dropped his undeveloped microfilm into a barrel of water...
...Microfilm, used for Vmail, is increasingly popular in research libraries-thus far chiefly for filing newspapers. Photographed on 35-mm. film, ten complete issues of the New York Times (averaging 800 pages) can be recorded on a single 100-ft. reel. Placed in a reading machine operated by hand crank, the film is projected on a screen, enlarged to 18 in. by 18 in. Heads of university presses, tired of spending $1,000 to $4,000 to publish scholarly books which may never be read by more than a hundred or so other scholars, are talking of publishing more & more...
Librarian Rider, a hard man to satisfy, objects to current Readex practice because the cards, like microfilm, must be boxed and stored. He would carry the process one step further, use standard card-catalogue cases, simply microprint each book on the back of its card. There would be no writing out of slips, no waiting for books to be brought from the stacks. An average library file drawer containing 2,300 cards, estimates Rider, would hold as many "books" as 168 ft. of shelves. It is already possible, he reports, to microprint 250 book pages on one side...
...estimated that the Library of Congress collection, in 236 folio volumes, totals about 65,000 pages. When completed, the microfilm copy will comprise about 80 reels, of 100 feet each. Widener is paying...
...micro-filming will be the complete re-cataloging of the Library's Jefferson papers according to the best modern practice and in the light of the fullest recent scholarship. The papers previously had not been fully catalogued, and the Library is preparing descriptive material to accompany the microfilm reproductions. This editorial work is being done by Mrs. Helen Bullock, firmer Archivist of Colonial Williamsburg and now a member of the Library of Congress staff. Mrs. Bullock is utilizing in her work the results of the unique union catalog of Jefferson correspondence maintained by the University of Virginia Library...