The library has recently acquired a Minolta MS 6000 digital microforms reader/printer with an attached personal computer. The MS 6000 is an updated version of the other microforms reader/printers already in use on the library’s first floor, as well as having the added capability of being able to digitize the microform images, and allowing the user to save the images to the college’s student network drive, to a floppy disk or to a writable CD-Rom or DVD-Rom. Scan resolutions can be set at between 200-800 dpi.

The MS 6000 also has an added universal microforms carriage, which allows the patron to use the machine with every type of microform the library owns, including standard 16 and 35 mm. microfilm reels, 16 mm. microfilm cartridges, microfiche, and with a stronger viewing lens added to the machine, even ultrafiche.

This new microforms machine will allow users easier access to the thousands of microforms housed on the library’s first floor, including new sets such as the Houston Mutiny and Riots microfilm, the C.I.S. Congressional Committee Hearings and Oral Arguments of the U.S. Supreme Court, and rare Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Legal Treatises.

Instructions for using the MS 6000 are posted next to the machine in the library’s first floor microforms area. For more information or instruction on the MS 6000, please contact Peter Wong, Government Documents Assistant, at 713.646.1715, or pwong@stcl.edu.