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News and Microforms Library

Resources

NEWSCAT (Penn State access to newspapers, online, paper, microformats by geography, time period or language)

Microforms Collection Guide Locator (Guides to microform collections)

Centre Daily Times Indices (CDT Obituaries 1937-1995 & 2010-2011 and CDT Index, 1981- 2002)

Did You Know? (Watch NML's videos and learn more)

NYTimes.com Academic Passes (PSU students ONLY)

Penn State Student Newspaper Readership Program

 

Contact

News & Microforms Library
21 W Pattee (ground floor of Pattee Library, West Entrance, near MacKinnon's Cafe)
814-863-0377

Eric Novotny, Acting Head George and Sherry Middlemas Arts and Humanities Library and Acting Head News and Microforms Library
ecn1@psu.edu
814-865-1014

or Your Campus Librarian

 

Types of Microforms

"Microform" is a general term used to describe the microfilm, microfiche, or micro-opaques (types) used for the storage of documents that have been photographed and reduced in size in order to conserve space or to preserve materials that deteriorate rapidly

The News & Microforms Library Libraries has collections in the following microform formats:

reel of microfilm

 

microfilm: long strips of transparent plastic rolled onto reels

 

superfiche

 

 

 

super-fiche: rectangular sheets of transparent plastic stored in envelopes (can hold up to 500 page images per fiche)

photograph of microfiche

 

microfiche: rectangular sheets of transparent plastic stored in envelopes (can hold up to 98 page images per fiche)

 


photograph of microopaque

 

micro-opaque: rectangular sheets of card stock stored in boxes. Though an obsolete micro-format, the Libraries retain numerous collections on micro-opaque.