Did you think that “reduce, reuse, recycle” was just a modern slogan? Check out this early modern book:
22 December 2011
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Sarah Werner
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Yearly Archives: 2011
19 December 2011
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Guest Author
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“What’s that letter?”: Searching for water amongst the leaves
A guest post by Folger Institute participant and short-term fellow Lehua Yim Sixteenth-century England was particularly formative in the long history of what “Britain” means for the peoples of that archipelago, as reformulations of political, legal, economic, and religious institutions … Continue reading
15 December 2011
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Heather Wolfe
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Manuscript reunions
Sometimes we come across a manuscript on the market that looks vaguely familiar, and sends us scrambling to Hamnet to figure out why. I was reminded of this last week when a bookseller offered us a “naval return for Queen … Continue reading
12 December 2011
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Sarah Werner
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‘Tis the season
For teachers, this is the season of grading; for students, this is the season of exam-taking and paper-writing. For some of you, both students and teachers, you get slammed on both sides (no matter how much you enjoy writing or … Continue reading
8 December 2011
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Georgianna Ziegler and Caryn Lazzuri
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Something borrowed . . .
Georgianna: Did you ever wonder why or how we borrow items to show in our exhibitions at the Folger? Let’s use the upcoming “Shakespeare’s Sisters: Women Writers, 1500-1700,” opening on February 2, 2012, as an example. My colleague Caryn Lazzuri … Continue reading
5 December 2011
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Michael Poston
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The most interesting use of our data will not be what we think it is
In Bloom It’s safe to say, the bloom is off the rose. Online collections just aren’t as sexy as they once were. Increasingly ubiquitious plans to put digital images online excite an increasingly smaller crowd. And projects that rely on … Continue reading
1 December 2011
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Jim Kuhn
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Folger Tooltips: Hamnet URLs, part one
The modest purpose of today’s tooltip is to introduce one major piece of scaffolding available to you in staging your online research at the Folger: the humble URL. Today we’ll talk about Hamnet bibliographic records and Basic Searches; future URL … Continue reading
28 November 2011
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Erin Blake
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A Trip to the Fair
Every November, the International Fine Print Dealers’ Association (IFPDA) holds a fair at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan. Colloquially known as the New York Print Fair, almost 100 dealers from the US, Canada, and Europe bring a selection from … Continue reading
21 November 2011
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Sarah Werner
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Research aids: understanding catalog records
A number of posts and comments in The Collation have discussed the wonderful work that Folger catalogers do. But sometimes we all need assistance to fully grasp what information is being conveyed in those detailed Hamnet records. As I mentioned in … Continue reading
17 November 2011
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Heather Wolfe
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Marginalizing heralds and antiquaries
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a period of major transition for English heralds, as the number of arms being granted increased exponentially, requiring improved methods of record-keeping. Their job was both ceremonial (ordering and keeping score at tournaments, ordering … Continue reading