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Listen and watch as the Red-Throated League of the Norwegian Explorers performs a live radio play of The Missing Bullion, a Sherlock Holmes adaptation written by Edith Meiser (1898-1993). Meiser — a writer, actress, and producer — helped bring Sherlock Holmes to American radio listeners on the NBC radio network in 1930, where episodes aired through most of the 1940s. The series also was broadcast on the Mutual network.

Meiser wrote each of the episodes for the first 12 years, adapting Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tales as well as writing original adventures.

The Edith Meiser Collection at the University of Minnesota Libraries includes each of these scripts, which  have been dramatized annually by the Red-Throated League since 1995, along with letters, clippings, photographs, manuscripts and bound volumes on Sherlock Holmes.

This performance was recorded live June 19, 2016, at the Triennial Sherlock Holmes Conference at the University of Minnesota. This year's conference was titled, The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes.

In this installment of "Read This Book!" Janice Jaguszewski talks about books related to death, dying, funerals, and rituals related to dying. Jaguszewski is the director of Health Sciences Libraries at the University of Minnesota.

Host of "Read This Book!" is Lisa Von Drasek, curator of the Children's Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota.

Find the reviewed books:

* The D Word by Sue Brayne

* From University of Minnesota Libraries

* Meaningful Funerals by Ewan Kelly

* From University of Minnesota Libraries

* Perfect Strangers Guide to Funerals by Stuart M. Matlins

* From University of Minnesota Libraries

* From Hennepin County Library

* Parting Ways by Denise Carson

* From University of Minnesota Libraries

About Lisa Von Drasek and Read This Book!

Lisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries. 

Read This Book! is a video podcast produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries. It is available on YouTube and iTunes.

Listen and watch as the Red-Throated League of the Norwegian Explores performs a live radio play of The Missing Bullion, a Sherlock Holmes adaptation written by Edith Meiser (1898-1993). Meiser — a writer, actress, and producer — helped bring Sherlock Holmes to American radio listeners on the NBC radio network in 1930, where they aired until the late 1940s.

In this installment of "Read This Book!" Janice Jaguszewski talks about books related to death, dying, funerals, and rituals related to dying. Jaguszewski is the director of Health Sciences Libraries at the University of Minnesota.

The Midwives Book, by Jane Sharp, published in 1671, is discussed in this episode of Secrets of the Archives from the University of Minnesota Libraries.

Host Tim Johnson interviews Lois Hendrickson, curator of the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Hendrickson said that The Midwives Book is the first book written in English by a woman for other women. The book covers all stages of having giving birth, including pregnancy, labor, child birth, infant care, and more. She also talks about her 30 years of experience as a midwife. 

About Tim Johnson and Secrets of the Archives

Tim Johnson is host of Secrets of the Archives and curator of Rare Books and the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Secrets of the Archives is a monthly video podcast produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries. 

The Midwives Book, by Jane Sharp, published in 1671, is discussed in this episode of Secrets of the Archives from the University of Minnesota Libraries. It's the first book written in English by a woman for other women, and it covers all stages of giving birth, including pregnancy, labor, child birth, infant care, and more.

Jan Fransen discusses Betsy-Tacy, the beloved set of semi-autobiographical books set in Minnesota by author Maud Hart Lovelace, on this installment of Read This Book! from the University of Minnesota Libraries. 

Fransen reads from a copy of the original Betsy-Tacy (1940) that her mother read to her when she was a child. Fransen and host Lisa Von Drasek also discuss The Betsy-Tacy Companion: A Biography of Maud Hart Lovelace (1995), written by Sharla Scannell Whalen. 

Fransen and Von Drasek also discuss the dedicated community of Betsy-Tacy readers, such as the Betsy-Tacy Society. 

Fransen is the Service Lead for Researcher Information and Discovery Systems with the University of Minnesota Libraries. 

Find the reviewed books:

* Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace 

* From University of Minnesota Libraries

* From Hennepin County Library

* From Saint Paul Public Library

* The Betsy-Tacy Companion by Sharla Scannell Whalen

* From University of Minnesota Libraries

* From Hennepin County Library

* From Saint Paul Public Library

About Lisa Von Drasek and Read This Book!

Lisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries. 

Read This Book! is a video podcast produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries. It is available on YouTube and iTunes.

Jan Fransen discusses Betsy-Tacy, the beloved set of semi-autobiographical books set in Minnesota by author Maud Hart Lovelace, on this installment of Read This Book! from the University of Minnesota Libraries.

Kevin Kling takes a look at stories of stories, the role of stories in our lives, and memories as alibis or evidence. Why do we need stories? Are stories medicine? And, of course, there will be stories.

All this and more at the University of Minnesota Friends of the Libraries annual celebration on May 4, 2016.

Books about dogs was the theme of this installment of "Read This Book!" featuring Lisa Von Drasek, University of Minnesota Libraries.

Von Drasek reviews "Dog Crazy," by Meg Donohue, and "All Dogs Go To Kevin," by Dr. Jessica Vogelsang.

Books reviewed include:

* Dog Crazy by Meg Donohue

* From Hennepin County Library

* From Saint Paul Public Library

* All Dogs Go To Kevin by Dr. Jessica Vogelsang

* From Hennepin County Library

* From Saint Paul Public Library

About Lisa Von Drasek and Read This Book!

Lisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries.

Read This Book! is a video podcast produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries. It is available on YouTube and iTunes.