Article January 8, 1949 Issue

Of Good Report

Keeping abreast of developments in business and office procedure, The Christian Science Publishing Society is now using the microfilm process for the preservation and storage of files, records, and back issues of some of the Christian Science periodicals.

It was the microfilm process which made rapid transmission of "V-mail" possible during the war, and an adaptation of this process is now accomplishing substantial savings for the Publishing Society.

The Circulation Department, using microfilm for the indexing and storage of files, now photographs on tiny reels of film nearly a million letters and subscription orders each year. An ordinary sized letter reduces in microfilm to about one fourth the size of a postage stamp. Indexed for ready reference purposes, letters and orders are now stored in tiny spools of film about the size of a typewriter ribbon, each spool containing some three thousand pieces of correspondence.

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