The USE OF MICRORECORDS IN LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SERVICES

At the moment there appears to be a lively interest in the significance of microrecords; the Symposium at Hatfield a short time ago, and now the present meeting. I wonder, however, if librarians in general fully appreciate the pros and cons of the subject and intend to do something about the various problems common to many libraries today, problems that might well be answered by adopting one or other of the forms of microtext. Commercial establishments accepted microfilming some years ago, and, I understand, so have some bookmakers and football pool promoters. Or are we to give lip‐service only, waiting for someone else to go ahead to establish this new form of reading material (that is, new to library practice) just as we have done for certain fundamental problems that are the main concern of librarians—acquisition, cataloguing, classification, binding and storage, interlibrary loans?