Microfilm Department:
Small But Important
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cha^ I*’® microfilm camera
one of Fieldcrest’s
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bleated in a corner of the
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b>epartment photographs
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documents each,
off™' department consists
^four Women plus Don Gwarek
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alsni ^^c^ivable Department,
jlocated in the AMP Build-
employees transfer onto
otiim and edit (check for
information
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quality)'
and
photographic
all invoice orders and
“ther .■
Aco— Pertinent data for the
Receivable Depart-
Deti-’ Accounts Payable
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Seri^'^- ^dl and Karastan
btenter (Karastan and
^^'^elcrest).
ceivaK*i'P®nts from Accounts Re-
.^Rsr being micro-
led j lacing iiiu^iu-
on(o edited, are spliced
plastic cartridges called
®^ines, coded by number
and stored in the Microfilm
Department. Once this is done, a
specific invoice can be located
and viewed in a matter of
minutes on a microfilm
retriever.
Documents from the other
departments are processed,
spliced onto magazines and
returned to the department of
origin for storage.
A new film duplicator,
recently installed in the depart
ment, can photograph 100 feet of
film in one minute so that now all
existing microfilmed documents
can be recopied and the original
paper destroyed.
By storing the two copies of a
given document in different
locations, the danger of
destruction by fire is lessened.
Also, the data can be stored in a
much smaller area that if the
paper documents had to be filed.
In addition, documents from
the Data Processing Depart
ment are copied and stored in
the Microfilm Department.
In all, approximately 13 mil
lion documents are on microfilm
and stored in the department.
PAGE COKER, camera operator, is shown editing a strip of microfilm.
SUSAN DEW, microfilm retriever operator, selects a magazine
for viewing on the retriever.
t Q MARION SPANGLER, control clerk, operates microfilm copier.
^I^AY, NOVEMBER 1, 1976