The AGU Digital Access Project

This report on the AGU Digital Access Project necessarily begins, as it did with our 2021 report, with an overview of the project and a review of other critical details concerning our ongoing work, after which specific challenges and achievements in FY2022 will be explored in more detail.The AGU Digital Access Project was initiated in FY2018 in conjunction with the digital access staff at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.It might seem peculiar to some that a Shakespeare library would be interested in religious holdings and specifically rare Bibles.The answer to this question is immediately obvious to anyone who has undertaken the serious study of the Reformation period or of the Shakespearean period and has seen the strong overlap between both of these fields.Having kept a long-term eye toward the entirety of the English cultural period before, during, and after Shakespeare, the Folger also holds major rare editions of early modern religious print editions, including many early printed biblical works.Indeed scholars of the Reformation and early modern Christianity