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IS0 RECO 1\11 MEN DAPIO N
R 260
TERMS RELATING TO MICROCOPIES
AND THEIR BASES
1st EDITION
May 1962
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BRIEF HISTORY
The IS0 Recommendation R 260, Terms relating to Microcopies and their Bases,
was drawn up by Technical Committee ISO/TC 46, Documentation, the Secretariat of which
is held by the Nederlands Instituut voor Documentatie en Registratuur (N.1.D.E.R) on
behalf of the Stichting Nederlands Normalisatie-instituut ("1).
. Work on this question by the Technical Committee began in 1950 and led, in 1960,
to the adoption of a Draft IS0 Recommendation.
From June to November 1960, this Draft IS0 Recommendation (No. 386) was circu-
lated to all the IS0 Member Bodies for enquiry. It was approved, subject to a few modifica-
tions of an editorial nature, by the following Member Bodies:
Republic of South Africa
Australia Hungary
India Romania
Austria
Belgium Israel Spain
Canada Italy Sweden
Switzerland
Chile Japan
Netherlands United Kingdom
Czechoslovakia
New Zealand U.S.A.
Denmark
France Norway U.S.S.R.
Germany Pakistan Yugoslavia
Poland
Greece
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No Member Body opposed the approval of the Draft.
The Draft IS0 Recommendation was then submitted by correspondence to the IS0
Council, which decided, in May 1962, to accept it as an IS0 RECOMMENDATION.
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IS0 /R 260-1962 (E)
IS0 Recommendation R 260 May 1962
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TERMS RELATING TO MICROCOPIES
AND THEIR BASES
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
The terminology of microcopies has been developing for the last few years, but does not yet seem
firmly established in any language. This makes it all the harder to find exactly equivalent terms
in different languages. But microcopies are used essentially for international circulation and must
therefore be describable clearly and accurately by people of different languages or countries.
For this purpose, it seems both necessary and adequate to give each form of microcopy in use
(a) a clear definition accepted in every country,
(b
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