Microform Collection

The Microform Collection (828-262-2793) contains more than one million microforms ranging from newspapers and journals to monographs and plays.

Major Microform Collections

• Appropriate Technology Library
• British Parliamentary Papers
• College Catalogs
• CoreFiche Collection
• Early American Imprints
• ERIC Documents
• ETS Tests in Microfiche Collection
• H.P.E.R. Theses( Health, Physical Education, Dance, and Exercise, and Sport Sciences)
• Journals
• Library of American Civilization
• Library of English Literature
• Newsbank
• Newspapers
• Rhoda Kellog Child Art Collection
• Three Centuries of Drama
• U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs

Microforms Equipment

• The microform area has a variety of different machines to assist you with viewing and printing material that you find on microforms.

Why Is It Called Micro forms ?

Many people wonder why we call the microforms area by the name microforms instead of microfilm or something similar. The answer is that there are 4-different types of "film" that are a micro format:

• The first type is not film at all, but microprint printed on an opaque card. Special projection machines are used to view this format.
• The second and third types are film that are produced on rectangular sheets. These are the microfiche and ultrafiche format.
• And finally, there is microfilm, which is typically 32mm film produced on reels.