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B. Glossary
Pages 94-97

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... Microfilm produced by a recorder that takes data directly from a computer, converts it into alphanumeric form, and records it via a camera directly onto film without any intermediate paper copy. Cotton ginning.
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... The archival term applied to permanently valuable records that are archivally acceptable only in their original physical form. Long-term film.
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... Optical disk. A round flat storage medium on which information is stored that is read and/or written using focused light {usually a laser)
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... Elongated, hollow cells comprising the structural units of woody plants. The term "fiber" is botanically applicable to hardwoods only, while in softwoods such cells are properly called tracheids.
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