User Guide to Microfilm and Microfiche is intended for anyone who is just that, a user of these technologies. This inexpensive guide will help anyone learn the best way to read microfilm and microfiche data, and to help preserve these somewhat fragile media. The author is a long-time Computer Science professor with considerable experience with multiple digitization projects for numerous organizations. He first used microfilm professionally and 1961 and has continued to find microfilm useful throughout his professional and private life.

The companion volume, Digitizing Microfilm and Microfiche is intended for anyone who has to deal with the economics and technologies of digitization.