fiches
Small record cards
Fiches is the plural of fiche, a sheet of microfilm containing miniaturized images of documents.
Short for microfiche, these small cards held dozens or hundreds of pages photographically reduced, once standard in libraries and archives for storing newspapers, catalogs, and records: She scrolled through fiches of old periodicals.
Largely obsolete since digital archiving.
Photographically reduced documents
- readersThose who peruse text
- duplicatingCreating exact copies
- scanningSystematic visual examination
- reduction ratioProportion of size decrease
jacket · cartridge · COM · preservation · archival · magnification · viewer · roll film
Small rigid note slips
- cardsStiff paper rectangles
- slipsMinor mistakes made
- entriesItems logged or submitted
- tabsProjecting flaps for gripping
cross-referencing · classification · indexing · card catalog · filing · alphabetization · drawers · cabinet
Formal written records
- filesStored data collections
- recordsStored data or albums
- data sheetsTechnical specification documents
- registersRecords officially
inventories · directories · dockets · listings · abstracts · extracts · summaries · notes
microfilm
Photographically reduced documents
- readersThose who peruse text
- duplicatingCreating exact copies
- scanningSystematic visual examination
reduction ratio · jacket · cartridge · COM · preservation · archival · magnification · viewer · roll film
index cards
Small rigid note slips
tabs · cross-referencing · classification · indexing · card catalog · filing · alphabetization · drawers · cabinet · Rolodex
documents
Formal written records
- filesStored data collections
- recordsStored data or albums
- data sheetsTechnical specification documents
registers · inventories · directories · dockets · listings · abstracts · extracts · summaries · notes · archives
fichescloud storage
Online data preservation service
electronic documents · PDFs · digital archives · online archives · digital databases