While the concept might seem quaint to us today, microfiche was once a very compelling way to store and distribute documents. By optically shrinking them down to just a few percent of their original ...

The feed offers a close-up look of how microfiche — the sheets of films that store multiple documents — are digitized and uploaded to the Archive. The feed offers a close-up look of how microfiche — ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. For college students researching today, finding the area or section in a long paper or article that is ...

Today, we think nothing of sticking thousands of pages of documents on a tiny SD card, or just pushing it out to some cloud service. But for decades, this wasn’t possible. Yet companies still ...

Perhaps you remember the “good, old days” of family history research. Two favorite sources of information were transparent films called microfilm and microfiche. Microfilms are on reels, and ...