Rare Book School Summer 2024 Course Schedule and 2023 Lectures Videos
Rare Book School has announced its summer 2024 course schedule with more than 30 in-person and online courses featuring new and updated courses including Medieval Manuscript Fragments: Cataloging & Discoverability, A History of the Indigenous Book in the Americas, and Modern Special Collections Cataloging.
RBS’s summer 2024 in-person courses in Charlottesville will be offered in the University of Virginia’s recently renovated main library. Other in-person courses will run at the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Grolier Club (New York City), the New York Public Library (New York City), the Newberry Library (Chicago), the Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA), Princeton University (Princeton, NJ), the University of Pennsylvania Libraries (Philadelphia), and Yale University (New Haven, CT).
Course applications open in January, and the first-round deadline will be 19 February.
RBS has also made its 2023 summer lecture available online as videos on YouTube and Vimeo and sound recordings on soundcloud (click here for details). These include:
The Surveyor’s Eye: Topographic Mapping and the Contest for Empire in Eighteenth-Century British America
Reader = Inessential Worker: Book History After Lockdown
Books in the Contact Zone: Between Amatl Papers and the Printing Press, Mexico 1500–1600
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The Lives (and Afterlives) of Stereotype Plates in the 19th-Century United States Booktrade
Nuns at Work: The Poor Clares as Makers of Books in Gothic Cologne
A Nexus of Learning—Museums and the Importance of Public History
The Typesetting and Designs of the Declaration of Independence Broadsides
Pacific Encounters in Print: Revisiting James Cook Voyage Publications
