[LAW-LIB:56008] RE: Friday Fun on Thursday: The Portable Microfiche Reader!

From: Bryan Carson (bryan.m.carson@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 04 2008 - 15:14:16 PDT

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And what of the Bibliographic Online Organized Knowledge, better known
by its acronym BOOK? Perhaps this "online" source would grab the
attention of students, who think everything is online anyhow :).

Bryan M. Carson

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John Pedini wrote:
>
> Ron,
>
> I actually have a portable microfiche reader! It’s not the one that is 
> featured in the document, but it was, I’m sure, once upon a time, 
> equally compact and convenient. And yes, you can use it in bed, for 
> those late-night reviews of the Congressional Record extended remarks…
>
> It was right behind my GAF super 8mm movie projector and my Realistic 
> cassette recorder (no lie).
>
> Thanks for unearthing this gem of a document. Besides introducing me 
> to the term boustrophedon (somehow I missed that in all my AV-geek 
> days), I have never, even in my most fevered reveries, considered 
> microfilm viewing appliances as cuddly.
>
> John Pedini
>
> (aka Fiche Man)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] 
> *On Behalf Of *Jones, Ronald (jonesre)
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:03 AM
> *To:* law-lib@ucdavis.edu
> *Subject:* [LAW-LIB:55996] Friday Fun on Thursday: The Portable 
> Microfiche Reader!
>
> The author of a 1968 government report 
> <http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/files/microreader.pdf> 
> (pdf) proposed a portable microfiche reader that is surprising similar 
> in design to modern eBook readers.
>
> See: 
> http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2008/07/friday-fun-on-t.html 
>
>
> Ron Jones
>
> Electronic Resources & Services Librarian
>
> College of Law
>
> Robert S. Marx Law Library
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>
> Cincinnati, OH 45211-0142
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