Julie Swierczek
The Royal Arctic Theatre and HMS Resolute
During the seemingly-endless heat waves of summer, I am drawn to reading about polar exploration. A few years ago I mentioned to a Folger colleague that I had just finished reading Alfred Lansing’s Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, and they replied,…
Introducing our new finding aids website
We are pleased to announce our new https://findingaids.folger.edu/ site!
Our new catalog is here!
In April we announced the preview of our new catalog, and now it is time to make it official: the new catalog is here! Visit it at https://catalog.folger.edu/. The new catalog! Huzzah! TIND ILS (Get comfy; this is a long…
The Folger G.K. Hall Catalogs, or How to fit an entire card catalog on your bookshelf
I had the good fortune of learning to do scholarly research during the transition from card catalogs to Online Public Access Catalogs or ‘OPAC’s, as they are known in libraries. I have a particular fondness for card catalogsSee also Abbie…
Introducing the Folger Reference Image Collection
Sometimes when people contact the Folger to ask questions about items in our collections, the easiest way to provide an answer is to take a quick photo of a particular detail. This has resulted in a growing collection of smartphone…