Sentences with word «microfiche»

Microfiche refers to a small piece of film that stores a lot of information in a tiny space. It is used to save documents, such as newspapers or records, in a compact and organized way. Full definition
[«Investigations of the Otis - Lennon School Ability Test to Predict WISC - R Full Scale IQ for Referred Children» by Anna H. Avant and Marcia R. O'Neal, University of Alabama, Nov. 1986, ED286883] Though this study is no longer available from AskERIC, it can be obtained on microfiche from most education university libraries.
ED references are documents available in microfiche collections at more than 900 locations or in paper copy from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service at 1 -800-443-ERIC (3742).
Potential candidates for future digitization include the following LLMC microfiche collections: Canon Law; Civil Law: France; Civil Law: Italy, Spain, Portugal; Civil Law: Germany, Austria, Switzerland.
the collection of indexes would be meta - searched by end - users, and the PDF of the entire page would be displayed as a search result, with full pan / zoom functionality like those dusty microfiche readers in the dark corners of our libraries.
This initiative, which will make all copies of the original Brooklyn newspaper, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, available, was supported by both grant funding and the loaning of microfiche from the Library of Congress.
Many librarians say that despite their increasing use of technology, libraries are still seen as collections of print books and the occasional microfiche machine.
Old files might be archived onto microfiche but even those files started to take up a lot of room after a while, and searching them was a nightmare.
LLMC has been a publisher in microfiche format since 1976 and launched LLMC Digital in 2003.
The 33 - year - old Finnish evolutionary biologist, aided by genealogists, has scoured centuries - old tomes (and decades - old microfiche) for birth, marriage and death records — and clues about the influence of evolution on human reproduction.
First of all, banks, by law, have been keeping copies of checks on microfiche for about the past 50 years, for tax and other legal purposes (unless the bank went out of business).
(In lieu of normative definitions here is an incomplete list of new developments which have emerged in the last 20 years: news satellites, color television, cable relay television, cassettes, videotape, videotape recorders, video - phones, stereophony, laser techniques, electrostatic reproduction processes, electronic high - speed printing, composing and learning machines, microfiches with electronic access, printing by radio, time - sharing computers, data banks.
Before you leap into a sexual discussion of the first dating girl who springs on your display, do spend a few moments in her picture microfiche to get a concept of what this dating girl is providing.
Eventually, though, you yearn for more substantial back story, and when it comes in the form of microfiche investigation and you realize you're watching another damned - from - beyond - the - grave movie, it's true that there's a bit of a sinking feeling.
Scott Kosar's script never manages to rise too far above preposterousness, be it in big scenes (separate scenes of confrontation for the children when Rachel Nichols» pin - up stoner babysitter meets an unfortunate fate) or small (a ridiculous expository microfiche headline, «DeFeo kills family after 28 days,» meant to give parallel urgency to the current proceedings).
She was a Master Locksmith for 20 years but also tried her hand at bookselling, microfiche photography, livery stable work, motorcycle sales and market gardening.
Compare typing «Roosevelt» in a search field with spending all day scanning microfiche and old newspapers by eye to research the Square Deal or the New Deal.
Newspaper databases / microfiche Although most newspapers freely publish most of their recent news stories online, sometimes one may need to find an older news article.
Today's New York Times has reports that «activist... internet gadfly... self - styled Robin Hood» Carl Malmud has begun a direct challenge to the big online publishers by copying and placing online 1000 pages of court decisions from the 1880's that he acknowledges getting from a Thomson microfiche.
The HMRC has only 36 operational microfiche machines and as these break down frequently, tax officials have been forced to hunt online for rare replacement parts or engineers with the skills to fit them.
Carl Malamud styles himself a virtual Robin Hood of the internet, and has started scanning cases from the 1880s stored on old West microfiche, and plans to keep going through contemporary cases because he believes the public should have access to the law.
Initially, preservation was accomplished using microfiche, but when the digital age began LLMC became LLMC Digital and began digitizing legal materials and making them available and searchable at low cost.
For example, in California, the state Supreme Court used to send copies of the briefs to certain public law libraries but stopped the practice when it made a deal with Court Records Service (later acquired by West Publishing) whereby the court receives microfiche copies in return for providing the briefs.
My former library, Saint Louis University Law Library, has long run a cottage industry cataloging historic legal microfiche sets.
They included e-ink screens, which use tiny microcapsules filled with positive and negatively charged particles, and microfiche sheets, an old analog format used by libraries and other archival institutions to preserve old paper documents.
microfiche retrievals as well as data entry of indexing.
Such historical information is available from the HM Revenue & Customs however John Thompson, Chief of the HMRC, has conceded that significant delay is being caused due to most of the pre-1970s employment records being held on microfiche and there being a dwindling number of operational machines left to access them.
They published the OSC Bulletin for the Ontario Securities Commission, and made corporate filings available in paper and microfiche formats.
«The first four rows of Table 3 show the cost of producing master copies of microfiche.
In addition to a collection of over 60,000 books, the Library holds more than 800 English - language journals in education and related fields; the complete ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) microfiche collection; archives of official print and electronic documents published by the U.S. Department of Education; and histories and documentation of education legislation passed by the Congress.
The Law Library Reading Room contains a variety of legal and legislative materials from around the globe in microfiche, microfilm and ultrafiche.
We are engaged in all forms of document digitization, image scan & data capture, from microfilm / microfiche and aperture card scanning, to automated invoice processing, through to large format scanning and everything in between.
Until now Hansard has been available only on paper or microfiche, so searching involved a laborious trawl through the index.
The series is steeped in so much lowbrow video game arcana that you'd need a microfiche collection of Nintendo Power to catch all the allusions.
A reader / scanner / printer for microfilm and microfiche is available in the Reference area on the 2nd floor.
The school library media center houses a collection of materials including books, newspaper, periodicals, filmstrips, slides, records, microfiche, tapes, computer software and media kits that support and enrich the school's curriculum.
They convert content from hard copies, microfilm, microfiche, application files, and PDFs very accurately to text files.
Without digitization efforts, these newspapers — and thousands of others like it around the country — would sit in obscurity in a microfiche cabinet, possibly in an unused space of the library building.
There are no microfiche readers or printers in the Cumberland County Library System.
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