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2007 Course Schedule

In 2007, Rare Book School offers about 30 five-day, non-credit courses in January and from June through October, held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (June - August and October), the Grolier Club in New York City (January), the Walters Art Museum and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (August and October), and at the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington DC (September). For information on this year's tuition, as well as other related costs, please visit the Ways and Means page of this web site.

A more complete, hard-copy version (PDF) of the course schedule is available for viewing/download. Please note that the list below is not as comprehensive as this hard-copy version.

 

8-12 Jan in New York
11 (H-30) The Printed Book in the West to 1800 Martin Antonetti
12 (I-20) Book Illustration Processes to 1900 Terry Belanger

4-8 June in Charlottesville
21 (B-10) Introduction to the History of Bookbinding Jan Storm van Leeuwen
22 (I-10) Introduction to the History of Illustration Erin C. Blake
23 (M-10) Introduction to Paleography, 800-1500 Consuelo Dutschke

11-15 June in Charlottesville
31 (G-50) Advanced Descriptive Bibliography Richard Noble
32 (H-60) History of European and American Papermaking Timothy Barrett & John Bidwell
33 (H-90) Teaching the History of the Book Ann Hawkins & Daniel Traister
34 (M-80) Introduction to European Handwriting Nicolas Barker
35 (T-50) Type, Lettering, & Calligraphy, 1450-1830 James Mosley

16-20 July in Charlottesville
41 (C-80) Artists’ Books: Strategies for Collecting Johanna Drucker
42 (H-15) The History of the Book in America Michael Winship
43 (H-80) The Stationers’ Company and the London Book Trade to 1830 Ian Gadd & Michael L. Turner
44 (L-10) Introduction to Special Collections Librarianship Alice Schreyer
45 (L-55) Donors and Libraries Susan M. Allen & Wm P. Barlow, Jr

23-27 July in Charlottesville
51 (H-20) The Book in the Manuscript Era Barbara Shailor
52 (H-40) The Printed Book in the West since 1800 Eric Holzenberg
53 (I-20) Book Illustration Processes to 1900 Terry Belanger
54 (L-30) Rare Book Cataloging Deborah J. Leslie
55 (L-70) Electronic Texts and Images David Seaman

30 July - 3 Aug in Charlottesville
61 (B-90) Publishers’ Bookbindings, 1830-1910 Sue Allen
62 (G-10) Introduction to Descriptive Bibliography Richard Noble & David Gants
63 (H-10) History of the Book, 200-2000 John Buchtel & Mark Dimunation
64 (L-50) Advanced Seminar in Special Collections Administration Samuel Streit & Merrily Taylor
65 (L-80) Implementing Encoded Archival Description Daniel Pitti

13-17 Aug in Baltimore
71 (H-25) C15 Books in Print and Manuscript Paul Needham & William Noel

24-28 Sept in Washington DC
81 (I-85) Japanese Illustrated Books, 1615-1868 Ellis Tinios

8-12 Oct in Baltimore
91 (B-50) Seminar in the History of Bookbinding (new course) Jan Storm van Leeuwen
92 (M-20) Introduction to Codicology Albert Derolez

15-19 Oct in Charlottesville
101 (M-40) Latin Paleography, 1100-1500 Albert Derolez

7-11 January 2008 in New York City
11 (H-40) The Printed Book in the West since 1800 Eric Holzenberg
12 (I-20) Book Illustration Processes to 1900 Terry Belanger

Admission Decisions

Application forms for forthcoming RBS courses are available online. All applications are acknowledged upon receipt. Admission to RBS courses is on a rolling basis. Unless noted otherwise, early admit decisions for each course are made three months before the course begins. RBS accepts applications until the week in which the course runs.

Frequency of Course Offerings

Not all of the courses listed in the RBS Course Bulletin will be offered this year. Some courses are offered in alternate years, and on occasion RBS faculty members may wish to take an informal sabbatical, and their courses may disappear from the Schedule for a year or two as the result.

In general, however, all RBS courses not offered annually are on a two-year cycle, and courses missing from the Schedule this year may be expected with some (though not complete) confidence to reappear in the Schedule next year; see the summary of forthcoming courses for the current state of play.

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