What is Microfilm?

reel of microfilm

Ask for help with microfilm, microfiche, or microcards at a reference desk.

A sense of what it is and how you use it: Using Microfilm

microfilm reader

Microfilm readers can scan images. Ask Library staff to show you how.

Borrowing Microfilm

Manuscripts (or other material) on microfilm is durable (which is the point). It can often be easily borrowed through Interlibrary Loan. But to make an ILL request you'll need to know a). that the microfilm exists and b). the series/collection title and/or lender.  Ask a librarian for help.

British MSS on microfilm

Manuscripts on Microfilm at Cornell

Materials for the History of Medieval Scholarship