folio archive is now online

Wed., Aug 19

A new archival Web site for Folio, the university's student art and literary journal, can be found by clicking here.

English Professor Vivian Shipley (below) created Folio Archive to provide electronic access to the 61-year collection of Folio that began in 1948. In 1990, after realizing that many issues of Folio were not in Buley Library and that Southern did not have a complete set of Folio anywhere, Shipley began to work on obtaining missing copies, a process that took her five years. She gathered a complete collection of original copies, which she placed in the library. She also copied each one of them by hand because she did not want to cut the originals, and had the copies bound and placed in the library's reference room.

Now, a history of creative work from Southern students published in Folio from 1948 to 2009 is electronically available. Complete issues from 1996-2009 are on the Web site. Shipley was able to establish this Web site because of a grant from Faculty Development.

She has also scanned the issues from 1948-1995 in order to place them on this Web site, but they must be proofed first. As a consequence, she has created a history for each year which will provide access to the contents. These histories contain an introduction that gives an overview of subjects and styles. Shipley also included a list of staff and contributors with samples of text to demonstrate the range of genres and subjects in a particular year.