Rare Book School

provides continuing-education opportunities for students from all disciplines and skill levels to study the history of written, printed, and digital materials with leading scholars and professionals in the field.

Program Schedule

Mar
6
2026

Traditions of East Asian Typography Conference
Presented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School at the University of Virginia; and the Korean Heritage Library, Korean Studies Institute, and East Asian Studies Center at the University of Southern California
Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California • 9:30 am–4:30 pm PT
Feb
4
2026

RBS Winter 2026 Open House
Presented by: Rare Book School
Rare Book School, Suite 230, UVA Shannon Library, 160 McCormick Road, Charlottesville VA 22904 • 2:00–4:00 p.m. ET
Oct
30
2025

Famous & Forgotten Exhibition Closing Reception & Events
Presented by: Rare Book School
Suite 230, Edgar Shannon Library, University of Virginia • 4–6:30 p.m.

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RBS News

RBS General and Buice Scholarship Awards for 2026 Announced

Rare Book School is pleased to announce the 2026 recipients of its General Scholarship Committee awards, as well as the winners of the Buice Scholarships for returning RBS students. Congratulations to these recipients! […]
Posted on March 4, 2026 by RBS
A Protocol to Protect Cultural Collections in the Age of AI

One of the bedrock principles of Rare Book School is meticulous care and vigilance for the integrity of the human record. We encourage rigor in methods and in ethics practiced by libraries, special collections, archives, museums, and in the book trade. Our shared vision focuses not just on finding answers in books, but in communicating the practice by which we arrive at our inferences, including transparency about the sources and methods we use.

A threat of the new age of AI is that some models can deracinate information from its sources, effectively removing the necessity to “show the work” and any responsibilities to the repositories from which data has been drawn. […]
Posted on February 24, 2026 by RBS

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