microfiches
Shrunken document sheets
Microfiches is the plural of microfiche—flat sheets of photographic film containing miniaturized images of documents, readable only with a magnifying viewer.
Libraries once stored newspapers, journals, and archives on microfiche to save space: I spent hours scrolling through microfiches of old city directories.
Largely replaced by digital archives.
Maintaining something's condition
- catalogingSystematic organization into records
- indexingSystematic organization for retrieval
- digitizationAnalog-to-electronic transformation
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
records · historical · retrieval · archival · recordkeeping · classification · accessioning · appraisal
One who peruses text
- viewerOne who observes visually
- scannerDevice that reads data
- lensLight-focusing curved glass
- magnificationDegree of visual enlargement
projection · screen · printer · illumination · carrier · loading · focusing · digitizer
Book collection or building
- referenceDirecting attention elsewhere
- periodicalsRecurring printed publications
- journalsPeriodicals or personal logs
- archivesStored historical documents
genealogy · dissertations · patents · census
preservation
Maintaining something's condition
- catalogingSystematic organization into records
- indexingSystematic organization for retrieval
- digitizationAnalog-to-electronic transformation
conservation · records · historical · retrieval · archival · recordkeeping · classification · accessioning · appraisal · newspapers
reader
One who peruses text
magnification · projection · screen · printer · illumination · carrier · loading · focusing · digitizer · lightbox
library
Book collection or building
- referenceDirecting attention elsewhere
- periodicalsRecurring printed publications
- journalsPeriodicals or personal logs
archives · genealogy · dissertations · patents · census
microfichescloud storage
Online data preservation service
electronic documents · databases · hard drives · online archives · PDFs