Microfilm: Rumors if its death have been greatly exaggerated

Microfilm?  Are people still using that?

Are you kidding?  Here’s what Bernie Madoff’s liquidation trustee Irving Picard had to say: “I expect these claim statistics will change as we continue to review and evaluate them. For example, we are finding that more than one claim may have been clipped together [and] are being broken apart. We have visibility back to 1983, but think we can go back into the late seventies,” he said, adding that microfilm and microfiche are the principal sources of data that are being examined for that period. (Bold letters were added by me for emphasis.  Click here for the full article)

I came across an article from yesterday’s Gainesville (GA) Times that explains, better than anything I’ve read, about the importance of microfilm.  It also talks about how digitization makes information easier to use and provides greater access to the information.  Read the full article here.