The purpose of this report is to describe the KISS (Keep It Sweet and Simple) system of photography for accurately and rapidly copying genealogical and historical records on 35mm film, developing the same and using the resulting negative roll in a regular microfilm reader for immediate viewing. The basic requirement of the system is that it be…

With almost every country in the world doing costly microfilming to preserve the world's printed heritage, it is essential to find a way by which these vast stores of information are not knowingly duplicated. A significant contribution to this effort has been the establishment of the European Register of Microform Masters (EROMM), a shared…

The documentary materials collected in this booklet deal with reproduction of copyrighted works by educators, librarians, and archivists for a variety of uses, including reproduction for teaching in educational institutions at all levels and reproduction by libraries and archives for purposes of study, research, interlibrary exchanges, and…

The documentary materials collected in this booklet deal with reproduction of copyrighted works by educators, librarians, and archivists for a variety of uses including reproduction for teaching in educational institutions at all levels, and reproduction by libraries and archives for purposes of study, research, interlibrary exchanges, and…

Prepared under contract with the International Council on Archives, this study will assist archivists in the development of an essential component of the basic archival infrastructure, a document reprographic service. Written with the problems of developing countries in mind, it will provide archivists, especially those concerned with planning,…

The second bulletin of the Microfilm Committee of the International Council on Archives begins with a short history of the origins of the committee. A brief discussion of the committee's 1972 Moscow meeting follows, as does the table of contents of a book on microfilming standards which is being developed by the committee to be published by…

Traces the development of public library local studies collections in the United Kingdom, focusing on technologies used to store information. The use of traditional technologies (reprography, photography, etc.) is described, as well as ongoing projects that use more advanced technologies. (CLB)