2009 Course Schedule

In 2009, Rare Book School will offer about 25 five-day, non-credit courses in January and from June through August, held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (June - August), the Walters Art Museum and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (January), at the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC (October), and at the The Grolier Club in New York City (November). The tuition for each RBS course is $895. For information on this year's tuition, as well as other related costs, please visit the Travel & Accommodations page of this website.

A MORE COMPLETE, hard-copy version (PDF) is available here (last updated 14 May 2009). Please note that the list below is not as comprehensive as this hard-copy version. See below for information about frequency of course offerings.

See also: Related Institutes around the World.

5-9 January in Baltimore
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 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, & 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, assisted by 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	Richard Noble & David Gants
64 (I-10)	Introduction to the History of Illustration	Erin C. Blake
5-9 October in Washington, DC
71 (I-90)	The Art of the Book in Edo and Meiji Japan, 1615-1912	Ellis Tinios
2-6 November in New York City
81 (B-80)	The Description of Bookbindings	Jan Storm van Leeuwen
82 (L-55)	Donors & Libraries	Susan M. Allen & William P. Barlow, Jr

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.