How To Use Microfilm In A Sentence

  • Most large libraries have copies, usually on microfilm, of newspapers from their regions.
  • Fearing loss and destruction of the rare texts, the Japanese government previously donated about 50 million yen to fund their preservation on microfilm.
  • It came out once a week and from 1963 to the present the back issues are on microfilm, but the issues before that are in an old coatroom in old banker's boxes labeled 1946, 1947.
  • This is a wake-up call for all historians, libraries, museums and archives to protect and preserve their material by microfilming them.
  • Two reading rooms are included, with seating for up to 50 people, 20 microfilm readers, and a study suite for groups.
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  • Most post-1914 materials are restricted in their use because they have not been catalogued and microfilmed.
  • (Survey report 6801 summarizing Adm. 68/195, 156v, and other data in Adm. 68/194 and/196, found in the microfilms of the Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; A letter of Carter's executors to Dawkins 1738 May 10 refers to "your ship Bailey.") [3] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a "rodomontade" is "a vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful or arrogant saying or speech. Letter from Robert Carter to Edward Athawes, July 31, 1731
  • The capsule contains microfilms of the results of a questionnaire that Denes had conducted around the world in the course of her university appearances.
  • She spent weeks hunkered under a microfilm reader, poring over six months of newspapers.
  • The paper records were microfilmed to save storage space.
  • The selected titles were microfilmed by Document Technology, Inc., of Mobile.
  • Interested readers can find much information stored on microfilm in Bolton Central Library Archives.
  • Attempts to microfilm the manuscripts were aborted for this reason.
  • Such information is easily transferred onto microfilm.
  • As I searched for more information, I wound reels of microfilm through microfilm readers until my elbow ached and my eyes blurred from deciphering the faded penmanship of long-dead army record-keepers.
  • He was exposed frequently to anhydrous ammonia leaks from duplicators and a microfilm processor camera, and described the odor of ammonia occurring during these leaks.
  • This room full of books was connected to a smaller room that had a Reader machine in it, so people could read newspapers on microfilm.
  • This extensive collection, all on microfilm is a copy of the detailed compilation of all such records in the country which was carried out by the Mormons in Ireland in the 1950's.
  • The paper records were microfilmed to save storage space.
  • Even with periodicals reduced to microfilm or fiche, spatial ordering in and among reels or file drawers represents time.
  • The Imaging Unit provides services to local and state government including establishing standards for micrographics; providing preservation and security reformatting of public records; microfilm processing, duplicating and quality control testing; and consulting with local and state governments regarding their micrographics records systems.
  • How could they have known they had ‘all’ the records if they didn't have either the microfilm or the paper backups?
  • As local studies librarian I manage a wide-ranging collection including newspapers and indexes to birth, marriages and deaths, which you can book to consult on microfilm by telephoning the library.
  • I spent hours in libraries, poring over microfilms and data and also travelled to Ayodhya.
  • Under Texas law, a copy of military personnel files of those serving in the Texas Air National Guard must be retained on microfilm at the Texas archives.
  • Unfortunately we all need to come to face the fact that there is officially no perfect way to archive photography other than making a high quality print and putting it in a safety deposit box or on microfilm.
  • Over 3,000 vendor listings in 270 categories, such as drying and dehumidification of paper and microfilm records, are featured, along with hot links to vendor Web sites.
  • Newspapers utilized for this study included African-American newspapers that were in existence from the 1920s through at least the 1950s and have been preserved on microfilm as well as in the original.
  • Librarians argued that if newspapers were not microfilmed they would disintegrate.
  • Finnish Americans have also supported famine relief in Finland, assisted the Help Finland Movement during the Winter War, and even held a fund-raising drive for microfilming Finnish language newspapers in 1983.
  • For the first time, the cost of tape libraries and media for storing and retrieving check images has fallen below the film and developing cost of microfilm.
  • Amanda returned to the microfilm projector and threaded in another spool, which contained an early reference to Pedro Aragon. TIES THAT BIND
  • Well His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, wrote the original, Om Mani Padme Hum and then it was photocopied and microfilmed, and rolled very tightly and placed all inside this metal drum, which is fashioned into a wheel so that it will turn.
  • Thanks to generous support of the Taube Family Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, those archives have now been organized and microfilmed.
  • (Survey Report 6801 summarizing Adm 68/195, 154r, found in the microfilms of the Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.) [5] Vizt. is the abbreviation for the Latin word "videlicet"; it means "namely. Letter from Robert Carter to William Dawkins, May 25 and July 8, 1728
  • Also, the many books that are in poor condition, or that are so valuable that hands-on access by readers is undesirable, have to be either microfilmed or digitized.
  • All bets are recorded on microfilm at the betting shop, but they say they have no trace of it.
  • After an introduction to microfilming, those handbooks about micrographics and the printed instructions become much more understandable.
  • Wills were obtained from the British Columbia Archives in Victoria and selected by the order in which they were probated on two microfilm rolls.
  • When he nipped to the loo, I managed to microfilm details of his latest report to his troops which he calls Gremlins.
  • On microfiche, the documents were published by Primary Source Microfilm as Declassified Documents Reference System.
  • (Adm. 65/195, found in the microfilms of the Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.) [4] "The lowest grade [of tobacco] was known as lugs as early as 1686. ... Letter from Robert Carter to Philip Perry, March 2, 1732
  • Hart had discovered the article on microfilm while researching the history of karate in the library of the University of Ohio.
  • Two-thirds of these files on soldiers killed in the First World War were destroyed in the Blitz but the charred and water-damaged remnants are being pieced together and made available on microfilm.
  • COG Centralized operations group COGRDG Central office grounding COLP Connected line identification presentation COLR Connected line identification restriction COLT Central office limit table COLT Central office line tester COM Common controller COM Communication COM Complement size COM Computer output microfilm COM/EXP PCM-compander/expander COMM Comunication COMMS Central office maintenance management system COMMS-PM Central office maintenance management system-preventive Maintenance COMP Computed COMPNY Company COMPS Central Office Managenment Program (GTE) Tricks of the Trade Issue #6 by Hype (Christmas Edition)
  • In addition, the monthly updates to the microfilm system need no scissors and paste.
  • Most of what he acquired was microfilm brought out of Poland to the West by underground couriers.
  • The paper records were microfilmed to save storage space.
  • A double strategy was adopted: sending more and more books to the new Midwest Inter-Library Center (today's Center for Research Libraries, located south of the Midway at 6050 South Kenwood Avenue), and microfilming as much as possible.
  • Amanda returned to the microfilm projector and threaded in another spool, which contained an early reference to Pedro Aragon. TIES THAT BIND
  • Non-book material, from audio-visual aids, microfilm, computer, whose standard management is an important part of audio-visual education development.
  • The specific purpose of the project was to identify and to microfilm monographic and serial literature relating to agricultural development and rural life between 1820 and 1945.
  • Far too much of my work involved reading old newspapers and regional magazines on microfilm.
  • I was recently reading through old editions of the New York Times on microfilm and came across a story showing that the history of on-air telepathy tests has always been a sorry one.
  • The original interment records were preserved on microfilm, and when they were digitized from the microfilm, they were stored on 4 CD's. Archive 2007-02-01
  • Far too much of my work involved reading old newspapers and regional magazines on microfilm.
  • Each issue is microfilmed by UMI and you may contact them to purchase full microfilm volumes.
  • Years ago part of Adam's holiday job had been to help file back issues, which were eventually transferred to microfilm. LOST SUMMER
  • They have been collecting and microfilming anything they can get their hands on for over a century, and they are a tremendous resource for researchers.
  • The magic lantern and the cinema spawned the microfilm reader.
  • Novelist and literary essayist Nicholson Baker once again has caused a stir in the library world, this time attacking the sale and/or destruction of original newspapers once they have been microfilmed.
  • Most of the daily newspapers are available on microfilm.
  • A MICROFILM reader will be installed in Darwen Library in memory of Darwen headteacher Howard Peters, who died in July 2002.
  • It now exists in typescript, in a few libraries, including that of the University of Calgary, and on microfilm.
  • While innumerable neurotic New Yorker fanatics have saved piles of the magazine in closets or basements, the few easily accessible archives of the magazine's contents have been on microfilm or in bound volumes in public libraries.
  • Donovan delivered more than he received from Fitin; he sent the Russian reports on oil terminals in Romania, the location of German spare parts depots, Abwehr spying on the Soviets in Turkey, gossip Dulles picked up on Hitler and Göring, along with a sampling of OSS toys, such as the suitcase radio, pistol silencers, pocket incendiaries, and a portable microfilm set with miniature camera for agents photographing documents in the field. Wild Bill Donovan
  • Anybody want to buy the entire 1950s run on microfilm?
  • A small scratch on microfilm can result in the loss of a large amount of data.
  • They've got one of these machines that has newspapers on microfilm going back to the turn of the century. I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
  • Years ago part of Adam's holiday job had been to help file back issues, which were eventually transferred to microfilm. LOST SUMMER
  • In 1991, the bulk of the Newton manuscripts were released on forty-three reels of microfilm.
  • Documents taken from the National Archive microfilm point to FPJ not being a natural-born citizen of the Philippines and therefore ineligible to run for president.
  • Less than a year ago my research would have required a laborious and tedious consultation of the multiple microfilm editions of Knox's works owned by my library.
  • The present invention relates to jade screen microfilm and its preparation process.
  • In 1964 the Library made them available outside its reading rooms by having the entire collection microfilmed.
  • By accident someone had microfilmed the manuscript pages in the wrong order.
  • (Survey Report 6801 summarizing Adm 68/195, 154r, found in the microfilms of the Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.) [4] "The lowest grade [of tobacco] was known as lugs as early as 1686. ... Letter from Robert Carter to James Bradley, June 26, 1731
  • A team on Saipan indexed and microfilmed documents, and a complete set of the film and the final index was deposited with each island government and with the UHM Library.
  • If it had not been microfilmed to fit on the tiny dot you see above, it would have taken up 63 pages.
  • Except for published extracts, these 124 manuscript diaries have only been available at the West Point Library and on microfilm.
  • The collected microfilms contain medieval manuscripts of musical compositions, such as missals, antiphonaries, graduals, passions, lamentations, lute and organ tabulatures, as well as treatises on the theory of music.
  • He said that in his company, employees would microfilm copies of outgoing international telegrams that would then be picked up by a government courier.
  • He's fingered for the crime by professional stoolie Moe, and he soon finds himself on the run from Joey, the cops, and the Feds, all of whom are seeking the microfilm for their own reasons.
  • They've got one of these machines that has newspapers on microfilm going back to the turn of the century. I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
  • These newspapers are currently stored on microfilm, which was produced from newspapers that had deteriorated through the years.
  • When I was in grad school, almost certainly before that cart was created, we had to check our footnotes by grinding through illegible microfilm copies of 100-year-old monographs; by taking the intercampus bus to Berkeley to check on the only copy of a critical edition of certain little-known Medieval MSS west of the Mississippi; by writing a friend in Germany to check with his university research librarian about their copy of that 17th century treatise with marginalia scribbled by Werckmeister; by flying to Washington to buttonhole an old friend working as an assistant at the Library of Congress to see if he could help get me some face time with an important MS that just didn't seem to be available in microfilm; by..... It's the All New Mobile Footnote Check Station!
  • The dissemination of collections on microfilm through interlibrary loan has given way to the speedy delivery of digitized documents online.

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