Only one of the four significant developments of the year, copyright, is not focused on micro-imaging; the other three--the arrival of ultramicrofiche in libraries, and the microform plans of the Government Printing Office and of the Department of Defense--are all micro''. (106 references) (Author)

The copyright issue and its ramifications for libraries are discussed. The article is broken down into six sections: general review; full-size copying; microform materials; microform equipment; audiovision and facsimile transmission; and, publications, research and professional activities. (176 references) (SM)

This review of "Microform Librarianship" (a nontechnical guide) and "Computer-Output Microfilm: Its Library Applications" (a concise introduction to COM) points out that the vision of how the microform medium could be developed more imaginatively to better serve the user is missing from both books. (CWM)