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Shakespeare Weekend! 

UWM Special Collections holds a considerable Shakespeare collection because for many years our library was home for the Modern Language Association’s New Variorum Shakespeare project under the general editorship of UWM English professor Robert K. Turner, Jr. (1926-2012). In memory of Bob Turner, we are pleased to begin our new Shakespeare Weekend series with the thirty-seven volumes of The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare, published by the Limited Editions Club from 1939-1940. 

Each of the Limited Edition Club (LEC) volumes of Shakespeare’s work are illustrated by a different artist, but the unifying factor is that all volumes were designed by famed book and type designer Bruce Rogers and edited by the British theatre professional and Shakespeare specialist Herbert Farjeon. This week we present Volume 1, Shakespeare’s comedy of infidelity and character swaps All’s Well That Ends Well, illustrated by the noted German-American illustrator and graphic artist Richard Floethe (1901-1988). The volume was printed in an edition of 1950 copies at the Press of A. Colish. The title page and colophon say that the illustrations are from Floethe’s drawings, but we suspect that they are linocuts, much like the prints he produced for the 1937 LEC edition of Pinocchio.

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#AskAnArchivist Day

October 13, 2021 is #AskAnArchivist Day. Bring all your archival related questions to Twitter where graduate interns Maddi Brenner and Jamee Pritchard will be taking over the @uwmlibraries Twitter account for the day. 

What questions can be asked? 

We are eager to respond to any and all questions you have about archives and archival work. No question is too silly . . . 

What’s the craziest thing you’ve come across in your collections? 

If your archives had a soundtrack, what songs would be on it? 

What do archivists talk about around the water cooler? 

What’s a water cooler and why did people gather around it to talk?

...and no question is too practical.

What should I do to be sure that my emails won’t get lost? 

I’ve got loads of digital images on my phone. How should I store them so I can access them later on? 

How do you decide which items to keep and which to weed out from a collection? 

As a teacher, how can I get my students more interested in using archives for projects? 

How does it work? 

#AskAnArchivist Day is open to everyone—all you need is a Twitter account. To participate, just tweet a question and include the hashtag #AskAnArchivist in your tweet. Your question will be seen instantly by archivists around the country who are standing by to respond directly to you. 

Have a question for a specific archives or archivist? Include their Twitter handle with your question. UWM Libraries’ Twitter handle is @uwmlibraries. We may not know every answer right away, but we will get back to you after we’ve had the chance to do some digging. 

Don’t have a question right away? Search Twitter for #AskAnArchivist and follow along as questions and answers are shared.

Get ready! 

Archivists from universities, museums, historical societies, churches, businesses, local and state governments, and other organizations are taking to Twitter to answer your questions all day long on October 13 at #AskAnArchivist.

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