Shakespeare collection

The Shakespeare collection includes editions of Shakespeare's plays and poems from his lifetime to the present day, with 75 Quartos and 82 First Folios as the foundation.

Arrangement

• Pre-1641 English editions have STC call numbers
• English editions published between 1641 and 1700 acquired before the establishment of the accession shelves have Wing call numbers.
• Most translations and post-1700 editions have Sh.Col. call numbers (pronounced shuh-CALL, and short for "Shakespeare Collection"). Generally speaking, closed-stacks Shakespeare editions acquired before 2012 have the suffix "Sh.Col." after a Library of Congress-style call number. Closed-stacks Shakespeare editions acquired after 2012 have "Sh.Col." as a prefix to an accession-number-based call number.
• Some illustrated and extra-illustrated editions have ART Vol. call numbers
• Shakespeare editions in the open stacks have ordinary Library of Congress classification call numbers

Cataloging

• Pre-1701 English editions were [[Glossary of Folger terminology|recataloged] as part of the 1996-2003 Mellon and NEH grant projects
• Cards for post-1800 items with Sh.Col. call numbers were originally part of the modern materials retrospective conversion contracted with Retrolink, but English editions were removed from recon.
• Post-1700 English editions, with the exception of school series, were recataloged as part of the Cataloging and Preserving the Shakespeare Collection project.
• Translations of Shakespeare editions were included in the recon project and are therefore represented in some form in Hamnet; as of August 2014 they are in the process of being recataloged.
• School series are represented on cards only (as of August 2014)