Widener Library Uses New Microfilm Process for Showing Manuscripts and Old Papers-Equipment Latest of Its Kind

Microfilm recording, latest process for copying rare manuscripts, is being used by Widener Library in the reproducing of 37 foreign newspapers. The project has been made possible by a revolving Rockefeller Foundation fund.

The films are being bought by the publishers of the newspapers as a convenient record of their publications as well as by several national libraries for study. Copies of the films for Harvard have been obtained through the Nieman Fund.

Out of 50 newspapers consulted, only 13 refused Harvard permission to copy their publications. Newspapers from Germany and England, France and Italy, Russia, China, and Japan are alike being recorded. No objection has been heard from the organs of totalitarian states. Films of "La Vanguardia" of Barcelona are still being received at Widener.

London's famous "Times" has its own microfilm recording process. The films, which reproduce 800 pages of newsprint each, will be invaluable for safe-keeping of newspapers.

To the Tokio "Advertiser" the films will be especially welcome. The Japanese organ, printed in English, has twice lost all its files, once in the 1923 earthquake and by fire in 1931.

The microfilming is being done by the Recodak Co. of the Eastman Kodak Co. A microfilm reproduction of the New York "Herald Tribune" is on dis-