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.