Hi,

 

We have microcards as well, along with an ancient reader that finally died a few years ago. They are almost never used.  Last time somebody needed to use one, a high quality camera was used to take shots of the microcards and then the images were blown up for the researcher. But a scanner is probably easier.

 

Last time we looked, the collections on the microcards were pre-copyright but only partially available online in the usual places (Hathi Trust, Google Books, Internet Archives). I suppose we could look again …

 

Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian

Tutt Library, Colorado College

diane.westerfield@coloradocollege.edu

(719) 389-6661

(719) 389-6082 (fax)

 

 

 

 

From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara Pope
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 9:28 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] microcards

 

Hello, everyone.  We have some of our serials on microcards, and in some cases, that is the only access we have to a title at all.  We do have a microcard reader, but it is very old (pre computer) and so patrons cannot make copies of pages.  I also tried scanning a page with our scanner to see if that would work, but to no avail.  My question is other than a patron being able to view a patron with a microcard reader, have any of you figured out a workable solution with microcards to make them more useful to patrons?  This question came up because we are reviewing some of our collections for potential weeding and we need to keep some of the ones on microcard.  They cannot be read on a regular microform reader because they are opague, not transparent.  Just to be clear, I am talking about microcards, not microfiche or microfilm.  See the image at http://www.lib.uwo.ca/weldon/dbwmicrofichecopiersandreaders.html for more detail of what I am talking about.

 

Sincerely,

 

Barbara M. Pope, MALS

Periodicals/Reference Librarian

Axe Library

Pittsburg State University

Pittsburg KS  66762

620-235-4884

bpope@pittstate.edu

 

 

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