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==Show notes and recordings==
==Show notes and recordings==
===Episode 3: Poems and Tomes===
*"Folger Focus": a feature to spotlight Folger research resources
**[https://firstlines.folger.edu/ Union First Line Index of English Verse]
*"Fancy Free: Tomes": a feature showcasing freely available web resources
**[http://estc.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-estc English Short Title Catalogue]: books printed between 1473 and 1800 printed in Britain or in English on the continent
**[https://www.ustc.ac.uk/ Universal Short Title Catalogue]: continental books published between 1450 and 1650
**[https://shakespearecensus.org/ Shakespeare Census]: attempts to locate and describe all extant copies of all editions of Shakespeare’s works through 1700
**[http://bbti.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ British Book Trade Index]: biographical and trade details for those who worked in English and Welsh book trades until 1851
**[https://www.nls.uk/catalogues/scottish-book-trade-index/ Scottish Book Trade Index]: biographical and trade details for those who worked in Scottish book trade until 1850
**[https://www.gravell.org/ Thomas Gravell Watermark Archive]
**[http://wbhb.dh.tamu.edu/ Women in Book History Bibliography]
*"Fancy Free: Poems"
**[https://dhil.lib.sfu.ca/mvm/ Manuscript Verse Miscellanies: 1700-1820]: first lines, coteries, and poem roles indexed from manuscript miscellanies
**[https://www.earlystuartlibels.net/htdocs/index.html Early Stuart Libels]: indexes over 350 political poems from the Stuart period
**[https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ English Broadside Ballads Archive]: 17th century printed broadside ballads
**[http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ Broadside Ballads Online]: 16th-20th century printed broadside ballads, indexes EBBA catalog
*"What's New with You?" with special guest Teri Cross Davis, O.B. Hardison Poetry Series Artistic Curator and Poetry Programs Manager
**"[https://poems.com/poem/study-the-masters/ study the masters]" by Lucille Clifton
**[https://poems.com/features/what-sparks-poetry/teri-cross-davis-on-lucille-cliftons-study-the-masters/ Teri Ellen Cross Davis on Lucille Clifton's "study the masters"]
**"[https://poetrysociety.org/poems/the-goddess-of-cleaning The Goddess of Cleaning]" by Teri Ellen Cross Davis
***Teri Ellen Cross Davis [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP9CTYNfnA0 reading "The Goddess of Cleaning"]
**Folger Poetry program Shara McCallum and Tamiko Beyer [https://www.folger.edu/events/shara-mccallum-tamiko-beyer "Writing the Past to Right the Future: The Poets of Alice James Books"]


===Episode 2: Manuscripts to the Max===
===Episode 2: Manuscripts to the Max===


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*"Folger Focus": a feature designed to show the relationships between different Folger research resources
*"Folger Focus": a feature to spotlight Folger research resources
**[https://hamnet.folger.edu/ Hamnet online catalogue], [https://findingaids.folger.edu/ Finding Aids] (archival collections), [https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet Digital image database collections]
**[https://hamnet.folger.edu/ Hamnet online catalogue], [https://findingaids.folger.edu/ Finding Aids] (archival collections), [https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet Digital image database collections]
**Examples from program:
**Examples from program:

Revision as of 13:38, 23 February 2022

The Armchair Reference Radio (Half) Hour!, is a bi-monthly, short-form virtual program that allows the Researcher Services team to share information about resources and new projects, while also engaging with viewers in a light-hearted but meaningful way.

Each program in the series is conceived as an episode of a vintage radio show—including a live studio audience—broken down into segments that incorporate radio formats including interviews and conversations, short stories, and news. Episodes revolve around the Folger’s strengths and researcher needs—format-based research themes like printed books and manuscripts or genre research of poetry and drama.

Invitations are issued to registered Folger readers. If you are not already a reader, you are welcome to sign up at our online portal.

Show notes and recordings

Episode 3: Poems and Tomes


Episode 2: Manuscripts to the Max

  • "Subscribe & Save": introduction to manuscript databases, "Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers 1500-1700," "Literary Print Culture: The Stationers' Company Archive," and "State Papers Online, Parts 1-4"
  • Access the databases through online research portal at request.folger.edu (account required)
  • "Off the Shelf": feature of Folger collection items
    • Euclid, Elements (1482), INC E86
    • Francis Cruys, Ars Nova Natandi, or New Swimming Girdles (1698), C7447.5
    • Edward Cocker, The Tutor to Writing and Arithmetick (1664), 234- 037q
  • "What's New with You?": an interview with a Folger Collections staff member about a recently completed project

Episode 1: The Infinite Variety Show

  • "Subscribe & Save": a feature highlighting subscription e-resources available through the online research portal at request.folger.edu (account required)
    • How to use the online research portal
    • Introduction to three newest resources, Early Modern England: Society, Culture and Everyday Life, 1500-1700, New Cambridge Shakespeare, Bibliography of British and Irish History
      • Contact registrar@folger.edu for assistance with research account or help navigating to these resources
      • Contact reference@folger.edu for assistance using these resources and others
  • "Off the Shelf": short story highlighting a Folger collection item
    • This month's feature: Diary of Junius Brutus Booth for 1864, Y.d.374
  • "What's New with You?": an interview with a Folger Collections staff member about a recently completed project
    • Conversation with Erin Blake, Senior Cataloger for Art and Manuscripts about the addition of 24,000 card catalog records to the Folger online catalog
    • Read more about this project at The Collation