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[http://shakespeare.folger.edu Hamnet] is the online catalog of the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]'s collection. It contains hundreds of thousands of records for books, manuscripts, prints, DVDs, objects, e-resources, and other material, but does not describe everything in the collection. Many manuscripts, for example, are instead described in online [[finding aids]], and other materials are still only described in the [[card catalogs]] and other paper-based resources.  
Hamnet was the Folger's first online catalog, a component of the [[Voyager ILS]]. It debuted in 1997, and remained in service until June 30, 2022 when it was replaced by the current [[Catalog]].
 
==History==
==History==
Hamnet debuted in 1997. The name was chosen through a competition open to staff and readers, and evokes both Shakespeare ("Hamnet" was the name of his son, "Hamlet" is one of his best-known plays) and the Internet (often called just "the Net" in the 1990s).  
The name "Hamnet" was chosen through a competition open to staff and readers, and evokes both Shakespeare ("Hamnet" was the name of his son, "Hamlet" is one of his best-known plays) and the Internet (often called just "the Net" in the 1990s). At first, Hamnet only had full records for open-stacks books and newly-cataloged vault books, plus preliminary records for any vault books, art, and manuscripts acquired from 1997 onward. By the time it was replaced, it contained at least a brief record of just about everything in the collection.
 
==Technical information==
Hamnet records are encoded in MARC (which stands for "MAchine-Readable Cataloging"), a data format developed at the Library of Congress in the late 1960s that quickly became the international standard for libraries. All MARC fields searchable from the "Advanced" tab in Hamnet are listed in Folgerpedia's [[List of keyword search fields in Hamnet and their associated MARC codes]].


[[Category: Digital Folger]]
[[Category: Voyager]]

Latest revision as of 20:24, 28 October 2022

Hamnet was the Folger's first online catalog, a component of the Voyager ILS. It debuted in 1997, and remained in service until June 30, 2022 when it was replaced by the current Catalog.

History

The name "Hamnet" was chosen through a competition open to staff and readers, and evokes both Shakespeare ("Hamnet" was the name of his son, "Hamlet" is one of his best-known plays) and the Internet (often called just "the Net" in the 1990s). At first, Hamnet only had full records for open-stacks books and newly-cataloged vault books, plus preliminary records for any vault books, art, and manuscripts acquired from 1997 onward. By the time it was replaced, it contained at least a brief record of just about everything in the collection.