Comments by "Roger Scott Cathey" (@rogerscottcathey) on "A History of Microfilm" video.

  1. I recall when our central library got a new manager/head librarian. She kept an entire wall of phone books, but consigned the National Union Catalogue to microfiche, the actual volumes being sent to some religious school. I hated her for it. There is no comparison to handling actual books and letting one's eyes roam the pages where one may happen serendipitously upon some unsought but treasurable reference. The money-crofiche was often out of focus, blurred iows, backwards, etc. Yeah, I hated her and the others supporting that for that. Later they gutted the old treasure, remade it in their own image. The old ambience erased, destroyed forever.
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