A microfilm or photographic reproduction of a book or manuscript; the process of preserving texts on film.
From 'biblio-' (book) plus 'film' (photographic material). This term emerged in the 20th century as libraries and archives began using microfilm technology to preserve and distribute rare texts.
Bibliofilm was the precursor to digitization—before we could scan and email books, libraries filmed them on microfilm to save space and preserve fragile originals. Those grainy microfilm readers in libraries were cutting-edge preservation technology.
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