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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 in Baltimore
11 (B-50) Seminar in the History of Bookbinding Jan Storm van Leeuwen
12 (H-25) Books in Print and Manuscript Paul Needham & William Noel

8-12 June in Charlottesville
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 in Charlottesville
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 in Charlottesville
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 in Charlottesville
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 in Charlottesville
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