About Academic Microforms Ltd.

Academic Microforms Limited was founded in 1981 by Michael and Jane Gunn as a dedicated specialist preservation microfilming service and micropublisher for the university, library and archive sector.

From the outset it has aimed to produce high-quality preservation microforms of medieval and post-medieval manuscripts, incunabula, early rare books and archive collections for research, preservation and publishing purposes. In 1996 these aims were broadened to include digital imaging services with output to CD-ROM/DVD.

Academic Microforms' major clients are university and research libraries, academic and professional institutions, archives, galleries and museums, publishers and micropublishers, together with commissions from numerous individual professors and other academics.

Our client list is globally based with commissions from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil,Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA, as well as major institutions in the UK.

Company Managing Director and CEO Michael J. Gunn has forty years experience in the micrographics and micropublishing industries; he was for many years a member of the Micrographics Committees of the British Standards Institution (BSI) and a former UK delegate to the International Standards Organisation (ISO) during which time he was instrumental in drafting many of the current BSI and ISO micrographics standards.

He has published many articles and a book on the subject (Manual of Document Microphotography, Focal Press/Butterworth Scientific, London & Boston, 1985, ISBN 1 0-240-51146-8).