Hey all: If you are in the United States, I
would strongly advise you to do a little research before you sink a dime into
microfilming "your" newspapers. I believe it is the National Endowment for
the Humanities that has been supporting the National Newspaper Project for a
number of years. The laudable, but perhaps unattainable, goal of the
project is to microfilm all of the newspapers printed in the United
States. I have no idea where they are on this right now, but at minimum,
you should check with your state archival repository on the state of newspaper
microfilming for the papers that you have. Perhaps it has already been
done.
Newspapers are primarily saved for their
information, rather than their artifact-ness. If you have newspapers that
are valuable as artifacts, then you must spend your money on conserving them,
not filming them.
Good luck,
Claudia Nicholson
Consultant (these days)