Bibliographic Access for Microform Collections

Neither the Library of Congress nor most micropublishers fully analyze these collections.Individual libraries cannot afford to do so either.But without author and title access, these collections are not very useful.Full analytics for microform collections have been called for but no effort yet has been successjul.The author suggests that libraries abandon full cataloging in favor of indexing, using the information provided by micropublishers.While a national index to the contents of microform collections would be best, an alternative for local libraries would be to create their own COM index.