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 | | Host a First Folio in Your Community!
Applications are now open to host one of the Folger's 82 First Folios, which will be on tour throughout 2016. In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, the Folger will send a First Folio to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Each host site, which can be a library, museum, historical society, or other cultural institution, will be required to meet security and environmental conditions, and to create a variety of programming around the four-week exhibition. Guidelines and applications are available through the American Library Association programming office. Deadline, September 5, 2014.
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 | | Announcing an Exciting New Resource by the Folger Shakespeare Library
In July, the Folger launched an encyclopedia about the Folger, called (appropriately enough) Folgerpedia. Built on the MediaWiki platform—the same software that Wikipedia uses—Folgerpedia already has articles about library resources, performances and exhibitions at the Folger, and more. While Folgerpedia has much to explore, we want it to keep growing! We're looking for contributors who can write and edit articles about the library's collection, research aids, and annotated bibliographies, among other things. If you have content you would like to share with the Folger community, please email folgerpedia@folger.edu. Thank you so much for considering contributing to the wiki, and enjoy Folgerpedia! | |
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 | | Applications Welcome for Institute Scholarly Programs
Seven upcoming programs share the 5 September 2014 application deadline. Three of them convene this fall: María M. Portuondo directs "Science in Early Modern Atlantic World Cultures" (with Kislak Family Foundation support for non-consortium scholars); Amanda Eubanks Winkler and Richard Schoch organize the "Performing Restoration Shakespeare" workshop; and Heather Wolfe directs a week-long "Advanced Early Modern English Paleography" workshop in December. Three semester-length seminars meet weekly in the spring: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on "The Scale of Catastrophe: Ecology and Transition, Medieval to Early Modern"; Brad Gregory on "Afterlife of the Reformation: Embodied Souls and their Rivals"; and Julia Rudolph and Carl Wennerlind on "Debating Capitalism: Early Modern Political Economies." A.E.B. Coldiron's year-long colloquium on "Renaissance / Early Modern Translation" still has limited space available at its September deadline.
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 | | "When one door closes, another one..."
At the end of August, Goran Proot, Mellon Curator of Books, will return to his family in Belgium after two years at the Folger. During his tenure, he has been instrumental in increasing scholarly awareness of the Library's Continental collections, especially its Flemish, German, and French holdings, and has been extremely helpful to readers and fellows in their research. We wish him all success in his future endeavors.
We are now conducting a search for a new Curator to join our staff. The Folger Shakespeare Library invites experienced, innovative, and collaborative applicants for the position of Curator of Early Modern Books and Prints. The Curator has primary responsibility for our world-renowned collection of early modern books and prints. Please feel encouraged to share news of this opportunity with your colleagues by forwarding the Research Bulletin. | |
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The Fellowships Program is delighted to announce the publication of Becoming Christian: Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance by NEH Fellow Dennis Britton. Dennis held his fellowship to write this book at the Folger in 2012-13. Published by Fordham University Press this year, the book argues that romance narratives of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity register theological formations of race in post-Reformation England. Race became a matter of salvation and damnation. Congratulations Dennis! | |
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 | | Some Recent Collation Sleuthing
Recent posts on The Collation have indulged in a bit of sleuthing. Curious about why symbols might be used in signature marks? How did early modern letters lock and seal? Who was the owner of the mysterious "E.H." leather bookplate? And if these aren't enough for you, stay tuned for our monthly "crocodile mystery"!
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 | | Introducing the Folger's New Reference and Outreach Librarian
We are happy to announce that Abbie Weinberg will be joining the library staff at the end of July as the new Reference and Outreach Librarian. Abbie has an MA in Medieval Studies from Fordham University, as well as a library degree from the Pratt Institute. She will be working with Georgianna Ziegler, Head of Reference, and Betsy Walsh, Head of Reader Services, spending part of her time in the reading room and part answering reference queries, developing reference initiatives via social media, helping with tours and classes, and serving as Central Library's liaison to Folgerpedia. Please introduce yourself to Abbie when you next come to the Folger.
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 | | "Don’t Rock the Cradle"
Books in Exhibitions: Mounts, Materials, and Economy
The Folger Shakespeare Library's Werner Gundersheimer Conservation Department will host a three-day symposium on books in exhibitions, focusing on book cradles and book supports, from 1-3 April 2015. Faculty and participants will discuss how to safely display an opened book. What angle of presentation is the best compromise between exhibition and preservation? What types of supports or designs are available to display a book? Is the cradle intended to be a purely structural support or is it part of the visual design of the case and exhibition? What materials are safe, cost effective, and sustainable? The symposium will discuss the various types of available book cradles and book supports, both generic and custom-made, as well as the wide variety of techniques employed by different institutions to custom-build them. Originally offered in Germany in 2013 by Hanka Gerhold, paper conservator at the Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, and Michaela Brand, book conservator at the Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum, the symposium is intended to broaden the reach of these ideas and bring the conversation to new audiences of exhibition curators and conservators in the United States. For more information, please contact us at dontrockthecradle@folger.edu. | |
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