Audio-visual aids in higher scientific education : report of the committee appointed by the University Grants Committee, the Department of Education and Science, and the Scottish Education Department in February, 1963.

  • Great Britain. University Grants Committee
Date:
1965
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Credit: Audio-visual aids in higher scientific education : report of the committee appointed by the University Grants Committee, the Department of Education and Science, and the Scottish Education Department in February, 1963. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stage, which enables the demonstrations for a second lecture to be prepared while the first lecture is in progress. PREP. ROOM TURNTABLE LECTURE BENCH LECTURE THEATRE LECTURE THEATRE LECTURE THEATRE The library 19. The library is the institution’s information centre and information should be stored there on tape, film and microfilm as well as on the printed page. Although such libraries are as yet few in number, some do exist and the students are fairly accustomed to using microfilm readers. The advantages of storing on microfilm are so obvious and the rate of book publication so considerable that future growth in the use of microfilm would seem to be inevitable. New libraries should therefore be designed, with carrels suitably wired for microfilm readers. 20. It is perhaps not too fanciful to look a little further ahead as far as the photographic storage of information is concerned. One large firm of out- fitters in this country has transferred the accounts of all its customers—some 2,500,000 documents—on to 16 mm microfilm. This has not only enabled the records to be kept in one filing cabinet, but has allowed seven and a half tons of paper to be discarded. It is estimated that all the information in a good- sized university could be compressed, by the use of microfilm, into the space of two cubic yards. 21. Such compression brings in its wake a formidable information-retrieval