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<p class=MsoNormal>The following is an excerpt of the <i>Washington post</i> review
of the Folger’s current exhibit. Put together on an emergency basis (we <i>thought</i>
the exhibit hall would be closed this summer for maintenance, now deferred), The
Curatorial Eye features previously unexhibited personal selections of about 15
Folger Central Library curators, conservators, catalogers, and public services staff.
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<p class=MsoNormal>It’s a really interesting exhibition, and I think a
really successful one. It has an online incarnation, in which selected items
are accompanied by short recordings of their respective curators. Audio
tour: http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=3230<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>And now, for the review excerpt:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Today, readers can delve digitally
into millions of books to find quick hits on what interests them. The old
process of cataloguing a book, which meant summarizing its contents in a way
that anticipated how future scholars might search for the interesting, is a
dying art. It required an act of reduction, an act of exclusion -- this
matters, the rest doesn't -- that defined that book's importance within a canon
of knowledge. <span style='color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/20/AR2009082003860.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/20/AR2009082003860.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Discuss.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>__________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Deborah J. Leslie, M.A.,
M.L.S.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>RBMS chair 2009-2010 | Head of
Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>201 East Capitol St., S.E.,
Washington, D.C. 20003 | 202.675-0369 (phone) 202.675-0328 (fax) | djleslie@folger.edu
|www.folger.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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