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Layout of the microtext room
The layout of the Microtext room has changed dramatically in the last year. It should be easier to find the materials, but please take time to learn the layout! This guide starts at the blank wall at the end of the room and ends at the wall where the offices are.
The microfiche are now all together. The LAC fiche and US govdocs are against the wall, the range continues with the next row of cabinets, closest to the window. NC documents, ERIC fiche, and miscellaneous fiche follow to the end of the row. The UN documents, British Parliamentary Papers, and other miscellaneous fiche are in the shorter, thinner, greenish cabinets directly in front of the student desk. The third row of cabinets starts the current newspapers. If you follow from the outside, to the inside, around to the inside of the next row, and back to the outside, you’ll see the order makes a lot of sense. This collection goes past the microfilm/fiche readers. Following the same pattern, the microfilm collection, Early English Books, and Eighteenth Century collection follow to the end of the room.
The bookshelf between Mary and Lauren’s doors contains indexes to the collection. There are also microprint cards currently on top of the microtext cabinets and in govdocs. The hardcopies of recent newspapers on a bookcase against the blank wall.
For those who are more visual, here's a diagram: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zsrgdm/224716965/
Once again, if you have questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!