Word: microfilming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cataloguers at the Library of Congress last week recorded a new entry: a mile-long microfilm of every Sears, Roebuck catalogue, from the slim booklet of 1892 to 1956's Spring-Summer four-pounder, 1,360 pages long. The film replaced dog-eared issues frayed by generations of historians, playwrights, economists, artists and others seeking a picture of the U.S. past...
Also included in the project are: 1) the publication of the "Digest of the Public Record of Communism in the United States," which is a selective collection of statutes, judicial decisions, and public documents concerning Communism; and 2) the preparation of microfilm records of 23 notable trials pertaining to Communism in America, and their distribution to nine libraries scattered throughout the country, including the Law School library at Langdell Hall...
Future Shylocks will get invaluable experience in "fixing books," harassing creditors, and seducing prospects, while photographers will get special training in the use of microfilm and infra-red photography...
...summer day in 1950 and composed an unprecedented letter to the Vatican. "Reverende Pater, pax Christi," they wrote in their best Latin to the prefect of the library. Then they asked permission to carry out as ambitious a project as their university had ever undertaken. They wanted to microfilm the Vatican Library and bring it back to St. Louis. Neither Historian Lowrie Daly nor Librarian Joseph Donnelly knew "whether the project was possible, or even whether the Vatican would consider it. But we thought it was worth a try, so we shoved it into channels to see what would happen...
...strong Mathematics Department, it contains texts on pure math, its application, and its history. An evidence of the library's strength and completeness is the location of the headquarters of the American Mathematical Society across the street from the Brown campus. Recently the Math department mailed its six millionth microfilm of a rare text to an interested person...