Earlier document automation systems photographed documents for storage on microfilm or microfiche. The collection contains 350,000 printed volumes and 513,000 items of microfilm and microfiche. Microform includes flat film, microfilm, aperture cards, microfiche, and ultra fiche. Three formats are common&colon; microfilm (reels), microfiche (flat sheets), and aperture cards. EDMS could provide online access to information formerly available only on paper, microfilm, or microfiche. Back issues are available in a variety of formats&colon; CD-ROM, paper, microfiche and microfilm. An extensive collection of microfilms and microfiche was also acquired. Such an FHC may or may not have microfilm or microfiche readers. This is the rating required to protect microfilm, microfiche, and other film-based information storage media. Documents from before 1980 are available in paper or microfiche formats. All microfiche are read with their text parallel to the long side of the fiche. By 1987 every library in Australia had access to a microfiche copy of Flinders Y46/1. From the early 1960s until 1994, most members received their annual installments on microfiche. There is a genealogy section with over 2200 books, over l00 periodicals, microfiche and film. Often, the microfiche copies were unreadable.