Methods employed to obtain funding from managers for microform equipment in a small industrial research library included the consultation of library literature, the identification of in-house operations potentially affected, and the accurate determination of industry-wide and in-house familiarity with and receptiveness to microforms. Written…

Microforms may be utilized by the medical libraries established in each VA (Veterans Administration) hospital and domiciliary Microforms are used for housing and using books, journals, monographs, reports and other library materials which are unavailable except in microform or whose retention in hardcopy cannot be justified. The most common…

Discusses collection development in the art research library in terms of the use of bibliographic acquisitions tools and the types of materials presently available in microformat; and analyzes the effects of such factors as permanence, bibliographic control, user resistance, and equipment considerations on the success of a microform acquisitions…