Today, we think nothing of sticking thousands of pages of documents on a tiny SD card, or just pushing it out to some cloud service. But for decades, this wasn’t possible. Yet companies still ...

I recently acquired a decommissioned microfilm reader. My university bought the reader for $16,000 in 1998, but its value has depreciated to $0 in their official bookkeeping records. Machines like it ...

ST Imaging's ViewScan 4 digital microfilm reader contains a high-resolution 18 megapixel digital camera, as well as precision components for viewing and capturing high-quality images of microfilm and ...

"Translation and notes by Michael K. Buckland, School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 "Abstract: A new approach to mechanized document retrieval ...

Carrier pigeons were used to transport microfilmed messages across the German lines to Paris in 1871, a little more than a decade after the technology had been invented in the 1860s. And newspaper ...

There are some great research-minded tumblrs out there — I highly recommend JSTOR‘s — the Muncie, Indiana Public Library is celebrating technology month in February. They asked their local history ...

Newspapers play a vital role in the Clark County Genealogical Society’s mission to help people with their family history research endeavors, according to the nonprofit organization’s president. “A lot ...

Recently, as revelations about the extent of data collection and analysis online have come out, people have become more aware of the spy-like function of online services. Literal espionage has also ...

In a limited space such as a library, what is being used to store an enormous amount of materials is "MicrofilmIt is a photographic film called. Microfilm shrinks documents and photographs and burns ...