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the goals of archivists the world over is to digitize and make searchable all the old film and fiche, although due to the extremely large backlog, this is likely to take quite a while. So, although most newspapers and periodicals published in recent years are searchable online, the decades and decades of non-digital archives are stuck that way for now. Unless you want a rotting collection of newspapers (which microfilm was utilized to prevent), the only way to get really old sources is via micromaterials.
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One of the images has this caption: "A microfiche reader in a library". It appears to be a machine that can read either microfilm or microfiche. The spindle on the left is for mounting a reel of film. The knob on the right is probably to control movement of film forward or reverse, and various
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There's a problem with the redirect as it is, is that it makes it impossible to disambiguate between microfilm, the film format and microfilm, the material used to cover indoor endurance model aircraft. This really needs to be done before redirecting to the format.
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