NEW CATALOGUE EQUIPMENT
NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE Special library equipment valued at 5000 dollars was now being received by the National Library Service in Wellington, Mr A. G. Bagnale. of the service, told the Daily Times yesterday. The equipment, he said, was a Microphile camera, a stock of films, cards, and two microfilm readers, and was a grant from the Carnegie Institute. The camera was to be used in the completion of the New Zealand National Union catalogue, Mr Bagnale said. This was a record in card form of the non-fiction books P9ssessed by the major Dominion libraries. Since 1941, these libraries had been sending card records of their non-fiction acquisitions to the union catalogue, but the problem was to catalogue those books the libraries had acquired since 1941. The camera would take photographs of the card catalogues of the various libraries, Mr Bagnale explained, and from this film record the library card entries would be transcribed on to the union catalogue.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27080, 14 May 1949, Page 8
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