Word: microfilms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This month the Harvard University Library System won a $939,000 grant that it will use to copy some decaying items in its history of science collection from paper to microfilm...
...Harvard has been involved with using microfilm for preservation for long period of time and has received various grants. There has always been a good track records of receiving these grants and carrying them out," Cline said...
...University Library does not plan to start at the beginning of their collections and attempt to transfer everything to microfilm. Instead,, they will take materials from collections that they have determined to be the most at risk and most in need of retirement from...
...industrial-university complex. But the onetime professor at M.I.T.--where he built a massive, gear-driven analog computer called the differential analyzer--was also a prophet. In 1945, dismayed by the wartime info overload, he proposed a desktop machine, the "memex," that would display text and pictures (from a microfilm library) at the press of a button. Presciently, Bush envisioned users of his proto-PC following trails of knowledge along storable hypertext "links," much like today's Web surfers...
...anniversary of Ralph Branca's fateful pitch and Bobby Thomson's subsequent home run--the so-called shot heard 'round the world that gave the New York Giants a playoff victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers and the National League championship--DeLillo went to the library and looked up on microfilm the front page of the New York Times for Oct. 4, 1951, the day after the game. He discovered something that produced what he now calls "a hush in my mind": the Giants' triumph headlined three columns wide on the left and a headline in an identical format...