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November 8th, 2009 by fabfab
http://classicist.blogs.com/weblog/2007/09/libraries.html
(Above: The Brooklyn Historical Society library)
Last class we met at the Brooklyn Historical Society, the BHS saves many records dating back hundreds of years. such records like historic atlases, land conveyances, Old Brooklyn Directories, Brooklyn & Long Island scrapbook Collection, an Image Data Base, Real Estate Brochure Collections and Architectural books. The list goes on about has many great resources the BHS has to offer, on our class visit our guide taught me how to use Microfiche. They had historical atlases on the Microfiche as well as on microfilm, first you find what year you want to look at, then you chose what neighborhood you want to see, you place the microfiche under the scope and the image is displayed on a monitor. This is a great way to keep lots of records of any size, even though when looking at the microfiche you might become a bit confused. Below is a picture of the scope where you place the microfiche and the microfilm, then you rotate the knob to focus and slide the fiche around until you have the exact location your looking at, one thing i did not like about the microfiche was that it was not in color, only black and white images were displayed and that can be unhelpful.
http://www.gl.iit.edu/govdocs/micro/micro.html
Posted in Uncategorized | | 2 Comments
on November 8th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Now that’s a gorgeous library.
on November 9th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
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