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18 December 2012
by Jim Kuhn
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Folger Tooltips: Changes to the Digital Image Collection

Dear Readers: Our Digital Image Collection has had a bit of a make-over. The purpose of today’s post is to introduce you to new fields and field names and to explain a bit of background that lead to these changes. Background: … Continue reading →

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15 November 2012
by Jim Kuhn
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Folger Tooltips: Media group wrangling, part one

Our last tooltip covered how to create your own login for the Folger digital image databases, and once logged in how to create and begin working with media groups. Today we’ll focus on some useful features of your media groups … Continue reading →

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18 October 2012
by Jim Kuhn
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Folger Tooltips: Digital image database logins and media groups

Dear Fellow Collators: Today’s post focuses once again on powerful but perhaps under-utilized features of our digital image databases. Recent tips have dealt with saving static URLs to get back to previous searches or to individual images, and saving static … Continue reading →

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24 September 2012
by Jim Kuhn
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Folger Tooltips: Digital Image URLs, part two

Dear Readers: This post is a continuation of the last tooltip on digital image URLs. The last post discussed how to link via a static URL to a luna.folger.edu search result set, how to link to the detail view and … Continue reading →

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24 August 2012
by Jim Kuhn
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Folger Tooltips: Digital Image URLs, part one

Hello Collation readers: Today starts a new series of posts on URL behavior in our image databases, the Folger Digital Image Collection and the Folger Bindings Image Collection. You may remember previous posts providing guidance about URLs in the Folger … Continue reading →

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11 June 2012
by Sarah Werner
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Binding clasps

Some close observation and deductive reasoning led commenters in the right direction in solving the June crocodile mystery. Here’s image that I posted last week, with a bit more context: With that bit of the surrounding context, it’s much clearer … Continue reading →

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31 May 2012
by Jim Kuhn
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Folger Tooltips: new cover-to-cover items in our Digital Image Database

  Additions to our Cover-to-cover series have made their way into the Digital Image Database in recent weeks. Among items you can now view in their entirety online are: 

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5 April 2012
by Jim Kuhn
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Folger Tooltips: Finding aids upgraded with links to digital images

While work continues to add to the Folger Digital Image Collection, and new finding aids continue to be added to the Folger Finding Aid Database, staff and interns are also busy upgrading existing finding aids with links to digital images. … Continue reading →

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