2012 Course Schedule

In 2012, Rare Book School will offer courses at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore (January) and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (June—July).

For information on this year’s tuition, as well as other related costs, please visit the Program Costs page of this website. For general information about RBS, consult the Frequently Asked Questions page.

For a PDF version of the 2012 schedule, click here.

To apply, see the Applications Procedures page, where you can download an application form.

9-13 January 2012 in Baltimore, MD
H-20	The Book in the Manuscript Era	Will Noel
4-8 June 2012 in Charlottesville, VA
H-30	The Printed Book in the West to 1800	Martin Antonetti
I-20	Book Illustration Processes to 1900	Terry Belanger
H-70	The History of the Book in America, c.1700-1830	James N. Green
L-30	Rare Book Cataloging	Deborah J. Leslie
L-70	XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Texts	David Seaman
11-15 June 2012 in Charlottesville, VA
H-60	The History of European & American Papermaking	Timothy Barrett & John Bidwell
G-30	Printed Books since 1800: Description & Analysis	Tom Congalton & Katherine Reagan
L-65	Digitizing the Historical Record	Bethany Nowviskie & Andrew Stauffer
G-45	Analytical Bibliography	Stephen Tabor
G-55	Scholarly Editing: Principles & Practice	David Vander Meulen
2-6 July 2012 in Charlottesville, VA
I-30	Advanced Seminar in Book Illustration Processes	Terry Belanger
M-10	Introduction to Paleography, 800-1500	Consuelo Dutschke
L-95	Born-Digital Materials: Theory & Practice	Matthew Kirschenbaum & Naomi Nelson
H-90	Teaching the History of the Book	Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
G-20	Printed Books to 1800: Description & Analysis	David Whitesell
16-20 July 2012 in Charlottesville, VA
H-10	The History of the Book, 200-2000	John Buchtel & Mark Dimunation
G-50	Advanced Descriptive Bibliography	Richard Noble
I-35	The Identification of Photographic Print Processes	James M. Reilly assisted by Ryan Boatright
L-10	Special Collections Librarianship	Alice Schreyer
B-10	Introduction to the History of Bookbinding	Jan Storm van Leeuwen
23-27 July 2012 in Charlottesville, VA
M-20	Introduction to Western Codicology	Albert Derolez
H-40	The Printed Book in the West since 1800	Eric Holzenberg
L-25	Reference Sources for Researching Rare Books	Joel Silver
G-10	Introduction to the Principles of Bibliographical Description	David Whitesell
H-15	The History of the Book in America: A Survey from Colonial to Modern	Michael Winship