A listing of currently available standards is included at the end of this document. If you are not certain as to whether your vendor meets this requirement, please contact LVA for verification and information about obtaining this test. In meeting these requirements, you or your vendor should conduct a visual check of your fiche using a light-box and an eye loupe. The camera negative fiche should not be placed in a reader to make the necessary inspection. As an alternative, if light-boxing is not possible, you can produce a working copy from the camera negative that can then be used on a reader to verify that the camera negative meets the requirements.
Individual microfiche are to be identified in the header of each fiche.
When sending multiple fiche, each group is to be identified on the RM17 form and the total number of original silver fiche masters is to be listed for each group sent. LVA will not accept containers that do not meet this requirement. Due to the various formats, hardware and software variations, and the continuous changes occurring in the technology, it would be impossible for LVA to maintain the disks permanently. LVA will maintain any disks it generates in the course of its own scanning projects or when doing scanning for another office as part of the committment to this technology. LVA will only provide proper environmental storage for this information when requested.