Past Years
Course Evaluations
Rare Book School employs a widely admired – though rarely imitated – course evaluation system in which attendees
write detailed prose accounts of their experience at the school. Their comments are then mounted permanently and
in their entirety on the school’s website.
5-9 January 2009 in Baltimore, MD
11 (B-50)
Seminar in the History of Bookbinding Jan Storm van Leeuwen
12 (H-25)
c15 Books in Print and Manuscript Paul Needham & William Noel
8-12 June 2009 in Charlottesville, VA
21 (G-20)
Bibliographers’ Toolkit: Printed Books to 1800 David Whitesell
22 (G-30)
Bibliographers’ Toolkit: Printed Books since 1800 Tom Congalton & Katherine Reagan
23 (L-70)
Electronic Texts & Images David Seaman
24 (M-10)
Introduction to Paleography, 800-1500 Consuelo Dutschke
25 (M-80)
Western Manuscripts & Documents, 1500-2000 Nicolas Barker
22-26 June 2009 in Charlottesville, VA
31 (H-65)
Intro to the History, Collection, Description and Use of Maps Alice Hudson
32 (L-30)
Rare Book Cataloging Deborah J. Leslie
33 (L-40)
Visual Materials Cataloging Helena Zinkham
34 (L-60)
Introduction to Archives for Rare Book Librarians Jackie Dooley & Bill Landis
20-24 July 2009 in Charlottesville, VA
41 (H-10)
History of the Book, 200-2000 John Buchtel & Mark Dimunation
42 (I-35)
The Identification of Photo Print Processes James M. Reilly & Ryan Boatright
43 (L-30)
Rare Book Cataloging Deborah J. Leslie
44 (L-90)
Designing Archival Description Systems Daniel Pitti
27-31 July 2009 in Charlottesville, VA
51 (H-15)
The History of the Book in America Michael Winship
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-10)
Introduction to Special Collections Librarianship Susan M. Allen
3-7 August 2009 in Charlottesville, VA
61 (B-10)
Introduction to the History of Bookbinding Jan Storm van Leeuwen
62 (B-90)
Publishers’ Bookbindings, 1830-1910 Sue Allen
63 (G-10)
Introduction to the Principles of Bibliographical Description David Gants & Richard Noble
64 (I-10)
Introduction to the History of Illustration Erin Blake
