Silver Halide Film: Good But …
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Suzanne Cates Dodson
Silver halide microfilm on a polyester base has been proven to last under reasonable storage conditions for in excess of 1,000 years. We would expect it to be the ideal choice for materials that we want for our “permanent” collections – that is for collections we expect to have, if not forever, then for a long time to come. Microfilm is, moreover, human-readable, which means that if in 1,000 years we no longer have the equipment we have today for getting to the information we have stored on discs or other storage media, good old reliable microfilm can still yield up whatever was stored in this fashion with nothing more sophisticated than a magnifying glass. Providing people still are able to read in a 1,000 years, if indeed people still exist.
© 2005 by K. G. Saur
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- Impressum
- From the Editor-in-Chief
- Comment and News
- Digitizing Glass Lantern Slides The Mira Lloyd Dock Project at the Pennsylvania State University
- A Strategic Vision for the 21st CenturyU. S. Government Printing Office
- Silver Halide Film: Good But …
- 2004 METRO Digitization Survey: Final ReportPrepared by the Metropolitan New York Library Council and Digital Collection Services, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Articles in the same Issue
- Impressum
- From the Editor-in-Chief
- Comment and News
- Digitizing Glass Lantern Slides The Mira Lloyd Dock Project at the Pennsylvania State University
- A Strategic Vision for the 21st CenturyU. S. Government Printing Office
- Silver Halide Film: Good But …
- 2004 METRO Digitization Survey: Final ReportPrepared by the Metropolitan New York Library Council and Digital Collection Services, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
