Word: microfilms
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...employees--whose work involves everything from transferring rare documents to microfilm to ordering and cataloguing recent materials--fear that moving off-campus will hurt the quality of their work and negatively impact the students and faculty they serve...
Your article "Declassified KGB Files," (News, Oct. 6) contains some misunderstandings about the microfilm collection of Soviet archives, complete sets of which are now located at both the Hoover Institution and Harvard University...
...project's goals is to make the microfilm collection as widely available to scholars as possible. Accordingly, Hoover and Rosarkhiv agreed to publish the collection by offering it for sale. Hoover's $3 million investment to create the collection has thus made it possible for libraries around the world, including the Lamont Library at Harvard, to gain access to an valuable scholarly resource at a very reasonable cost. As a result of its purchase, Harvard has acquired an archival collection that will serve its students and scholars well for many years to come...
...collection includes documents ranging from party censuses to information on the inner workings of the Russian secret police. In all, Harvard acquired 10,000 microfilm reels of various Soviet archives for a total of 25 million images. The original documents remain in Moscow...
...Russians had a lot of say in what they can microfilm," Kramer said...