Microfilm newspapers
Members of the public can now go to the Canterbury Public Library and receive an instant photocopy of any article from any edition of “The Press” they wish. After a process of micro filming that has taken 10 years, all editions of “The Press” except those from August 1969 on have been reduced to 35mm size and plac e d o n photographic record.
Anyone who wanted to find hus grandmother’s birth notice in 1881, providing he could locate the article to within two or three days, could take a photocopy of it for 20c, the city librarian, Mr J. E. D. Stringleman, said yesterday. A microfilm-reader-printer has been installed at the library into which the reel of film is inserted, wound electfically to the article required and stopped. A photograph is then taken.
All the small print, including the advertisements, are on film; photographs are not. In due course the library hopes to offer facilities by which members of the public can use the microfilm itself to search for wanted material. The editions still to be done should be on microfilm within six months. The micro-film library may be expanded to include other local newspapers.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33675, 26 October 1974, Page 16
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198Microfilm newspapers Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33675, 26 October 1974, Page 16
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