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Slipping rolls of microfilm into briefcases, the thieves evaded detection so effectively that their heists went unnoticed for weeks at the libraries of 13 major universities. When the operation ended, apparently in July, their collection of 3,000 reels was complete: a microfilm record of nearly every patent issued in the U.S. since...
...course, as Schoon says, an easy way to read the magazine is on microfilm. "The microfilm does not have centerfolds," she adds...
Americans don't take books that seriously anymore. Perhaps Russians don't either: their popular culture has begun to succumb to television. In America one rarely encounters the mystical book worship. Everything in the West today seems infinitely replicable, by computer, microfilm, somehow, so that if a book chances to burn up, there must be thousands more where that came from. If anything, there seem to be entirely too many words and numbers in circulation, too many sinister records of everything crammed into the microchips of FBI, IRS, police departments. Too many books altogether, perhaps. The glut of books subverts...
...Harvard library system is considering whether to help with restoratrion efforts, Olmsted said. American organizations are considering sending microfilm, periodicals, technical advice and equipment, he said...
...said Olmsted, who was in the Soivet Union at the time to discuss exisiting exchange programs between Harvard and libraries in that country. The subcommittee will be meeting in mid-April to discuss possible actions, among them sending volunteers to Leningrad and initiating efforts in the United States to microfilm and collect replacement texts in the United States...