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What Are Microforms?

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Microforms are scaled-down reproductions of paper or film documents, created to store large volumes of data in a compact space. Typically, microform images are reduced to about 4% of their original size (1/25), with some formats using reductions up to 1/48.

Microform images are almost always film negatives, preserving the original content in a miniature, easily storable format.

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