PHOTOSTAT RECORDING IN LIBRARY WORK

Abstract

A meeting of the Northern Branch of Aslib, held at Warrington on 12 February, at which Mr. R. Brightman, chairman of the Branch, presided, was addressed by Mr. E. J. Aslin, of Photostat, Ltd., on ‘Photostat Recording in Library Work’. Mr. Aslin said that it was not until the early part of the twentieth century that commercial and industrial interests first began to realize the value of using photographic methods for facsimile reproductions of important documentary matter. Although at that time there were very fine cameras in use, they were, nevertheless, unsuitable for this type of rapid document copying, owing to the somewhat peculiar conditions and arrangements found to be necessary for this work. There was quite obviously a demand for a specially designed camera to handle document copying on a big scale.

Citation

ASLIN, E.J. (1949), "PHOTOSTAT RECORDING IN LIBRARY WORK", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 49-52. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049302