microfiche

Alternate titles: Microcard

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  • microforms
    • In microform

      …in automatic retrieval systems) or microfiche (a sheet of microfilm displaying at the top a title or code readable with the naked eye). Use of the microform permits considerable space saving. The microform usually utilizes photographic techniques; however, other methods such as video magnetic tape recording have been used. Most…

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use in

    • information storage
      • Structure of an information system.
        In information processing: Microfilm and microfiche

        Reel microfilm and microfiche (a flat sheet of film containing multiple microimages reduced from the original) were popular methods of document storage and reproduction for several decades. During the 1990s they were largely replaced by optical disc technology (see above Recording media).

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      • sequence of negative–positive process
        In technology of photography: Microfilming and microreproduction

        Widely used is the unitized microfiche system, which carries up to 98 frames, each about 9 × 12 mm, on a 4 × 6-inch sheet of film. The microfiche camera repositions the film frame by frame after every exposure. Microfiche with a larger frame can also be produced by jacketing…

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    • libraries
      • Reading Room of the British Museum, designed by Sidney Smirke in collaboration with Anthony Panizzi and built in the 1850s. Illustration by Smirke, from the Illustrated London News, 1857.
        In library: Photographs

        …of the transparent Microcard, or microfiche. This is a piece of film cut to a specified size and shape usually approximating a library catalog card but available in more than one size (although the most favoured size is 5 by 3 inches [8 by 13 centimetres]). The microfiche offers the…

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