43 HOW TO RESEARCH A RARE BOOK. Strategies for the efficient
identification and interpretation of the bibliographies that
are most useful for work with rare and early printed books;
aimed at reference librarians, booksellers, catalogers, and
others who routinely research rare books. Sources primarily
in English and in the major other Roman-alphabet languages;
but some attention paid to non-Western sources as well. In-
structor: D. W. Krummel.
44 RARE BOOK CATALOGING. Aimed at catalog librarians who find
that their present duties include (or shortly will include)
the cataloging of rare books and/or special collections
materials. Attention will be given both to cataloging books
from the handpress period and to c19 and c20 books in a
special collections context. Topics include: comparison of
rare book and general cataloging; application of codes and
standards; uses of special files; problems in transcription,
collation and physical description; and setting cataloging
policy within an institutional context. Instructor: Eric
Holzenberg.
45 VISUAL MATERIALS CATALOGING. Aimed at librarians and archi-
vists who catalog published or unpublished visual materials.
The emphasis will be on c19 and c20 prints and photographs
being cataloged either as single items or as part of archival
collections. Topics include: descriptive and subject catalog-
ing; form and genre access; special problems in authority
work and physical description; comparison of AMC and VIM
cataloging; the relationship between physical processing and
cataloging; and establishing institutional priorities.
Instructor: Jackie Dooley.
46 INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNET. A practical introduction to the
Internet. Topics include: how to access and navigate the Net;
hands-on experience in a range of on-line resources, includ-
ing e-mail, the World Wide Web, and Gopher servers;
electronic discussion groups and library catalogs; strategies
for finding what you need; a look at what is coming in the
near future. Basic microcomputer skills such as word-process-
ing are required, but it is assumed that applicants will be
persons (eg booksellers, independent scholars, or librarians
at institutions not yet supporting network usage and
training) who have little or no previous experience with
Internet services. Instructor: David Seaman.
WEEK FIVE
WEEK 5: Monday 7 August - Friday 11 August
51 LATIN PALEOGRAPHY, 1100-1500. An introduction to this ne-
glected field of paleography, including reading (and expand-
ing abbreviations proper to various disciplines), identifica-
tion, classification, dating and localization of the prin-
cipal kinds of Gothic and humanistic script. Examples of
Latin texts (and, exceptionally, French and English ones)
will be studied from photographs, photocopies, and slides.
Designed for all those who have to deal with late medieval
MSS. Applicants should have a good basic knowledge of Latin
and of paleography. Instructor: Albert Derolez.
52 INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL AND EARLY RENAISSANCE BOOKBINDING
STRUCTURES. An explanation of the diversities of European
bookbinding structures, up to and including the early period
of more generalized practice and divisions of labor. Topics
include: identification (where possible) of the main types of
binding structures; their dating and provenance; the recogni-
tion and recording of materials and techniques. Instructor:
Christopher Clarkson.
53 EUROPEAN BOOKBINDING, 1500-1800 (SESSION II). For a descrip-
tion of this course, see under Course no. 42. The first ses-
sion of this course (31 July - 4 August) is intended espe-
cially for bench-trained practitioners; this session of the
course is intended especially for persons with a primarily
historical interest in the subject, and who have not (neces-
sarily) had bench training in bookbinding. Instructor: Nicho-
las Pickwoad.
54 INTRODUCTION TO DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Introduction to the
physical examination and description of books and other
printed materials, especially (but not exclusively) of the
period 1550-1875. The course is designed both for those with
little or no prior exposure to this subject and for those
with some general knowledge of the field who wish to be pre-
sented with a systematic discussion of the elements of physi-
cal description (format, collation, signings, pagination, pa-
per, type, illustrations and other inserts, binding,
circumstances of publication, &c.). A major part of the
course will consist of small, closely-supervised laboratory
sessions in which students will gain practice in determining
format and collation. Instructors: Terry Belanger and David
Ferris.
55 REFOCUSING SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. The emphasis of this course,
aimed at research and rare book librarians with collection
development responsibilities, will be on techniques for im-
proving a current collection's focus, though matters concern-
ing the acquisition of new materials will also be touched
upon. Topics include: developing a viable collection develop-
ment policy; surveying current collections; the challenges
presented by reformatting; techniques of deaccession. In-
structor: Hendrik Edelman.
56 DEVELOPING SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MATERIALS.
This course is aimed at research and rare book librarians, MS
librarians, and archivists whose current responsibilities in-
clude the care of collections containing African-American
printed and/or MS materials. Topics include: the history of
African-American institutional collecting; sources for
acquiring materials; developing clienteles of users; descrip-
tion and preservation; and current issues (Afrocentrism vs
Eurocentrism, ethics, inter-institutional competition). In-
structors: Lucious Edwards, Jr and Michael Plunkett.
BOOKS AT VIRGINIA
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Rare Book School 1995
Most RBS courses are limited to 12 or fewer students. There is no
deadline for RBS applications, which are accepted from qualified
students right up until the week of a course, if there is room.
Prospective applicants are invited to fax, e-mail, telephone, or
write the RBS office after June 1st (the address particulars are
given below) to ask about the availability of course places.
RBS 1995 FACULTY
GREER ALLEN has designed publications for the Beinecke Library,
the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Houghton Library, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Newberry Library, Stanford
University, the University of Chicago, and many other libraries
and museums. He was formerly Yale University Printer.
SUE ALLEN is recognized as the foremost authority on 19th-century
American book covers. Her detailed research, lectures, writ-
ings, and exhibitions guide librarians and conservators to the
selective preservation of English and American bookbindings of
the 19th century.
MARTIN ANTONETTI is Librarian of the Grolier Club in New York
City, before which he was head of Special Collections at Mills
College, where he regularly taught courses in the history of
books and printing. Between 1984 and 1989, he was Associate
Director of Rare Book School.
WM P. BARLOW, JR is a partner in the Oakland, CA, accounting firm
of Barlow & Hughan. He has advised many individuals and
institutions on bibliographical tax matters both in a
professional capacity and as an officer of a number of Bay area
library friends' groups. A well-known book collector, he is the
president of the Bibliographical Society of America.
TIMOTHY BARRETT is an Associate Research Scientist at the
University of Iowa Center for the Book. His publications
include the standard Japanese Papermaking: Traditions, Tools
and Techniques (1983) and other books and articles on the
history of both oriental and western papermaking.
TERRY BELANGER founded RBS in 1983 at Columbia University. Since
1992, he has been University Professor and Honorary Curator of
Special Collections at the University of Virginia.
JOHN BIDWELL is Librarian of the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library at UCLA. He has published widely on the history of
American papermaking.
PETER BLAYNEY is the author of The First Folio of Shakespeare
(1991), The Bookshops in Paul's Cross Churchyard (1990), The
Texts of King Lear and Their Origins: Nicolas Okes and the
First Quarto (1982), and other studies dealing with the early
English book trade.
CHRISTOPHER CLARKSON directs the Book and Manuscript Conservation
Workshops and their related internship program at West Dean
College, Sussex. Formerly Conservation Officer at the Bodleian
Library, Oxford, he also helped develop rare book conservation
at the Library of Congress. He has taught this course in Rare
Book School since 1984.
MORRIS L. COHEN was Professor of Law and head of the law
libraries successively at Harvard and Yale, before his retire-
ment as librarian in 1993. He is a well-known legal bibliogra-
pher.
ALBERT DEROLEZ is a professor at the Free Universities of Brus-
sels. He retired last year as Curator of Manuscripts and Rare
Books at the Library of the State University of Ghent. A spe-
cialist in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, he is the
author of Codicologie des manuscrits en criture humanistique
sur parchemin (1984) and other books.
JACKIE DOOLEY recently accepted the position of Head of Special
Collections at the University of California, Irvine, before
which she was head of Collections Cataloging at the Getty
Center for the History of Art and the Humanities. She is the
past chair of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of the
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).
HENDRIK EDELMAN, author of The Dutch Language Press in America
(1986), is Professor of Library and Information Studies at the
Rutgers University School of Communication, Information and
Library Studies. He has advised many libraries on collection
development matters.
LUCIOUS EDWARDS, JR is Archivist, Johnston Memorial Library, and
Adjunct Professor of History at Virginia State University. He
lectures frequently on the use of African-American primary
research sources in the teaching of U.S. history.
DAVID FERRIS is Curator of Rare Books at the Harvard University
Law School Library, where one of his interests is the
descriptive bibliography of early printed books. Connected with
RBS since 1986, he has been its Associate Director since 1990.
MIRJAM FOOT is Director of Collections and Preservation in the
British Library. She is the author of many books and articles
on the history of bookbinding, including Studies in the History
of Bookbinding (1993) and (with Howard Nixon) The History of
Decorated Bookbinding in England (1992).
ERIC HOLZENBERG is cataloguer at the Grolier Club in New York
City. He is the chair of the Bibliographic Standards Committee
of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of the ACRL.
D. W. KRUMMEL is Professor of Library Science and Music at the
University of Illinois at Urbana. His most recent studies
include The Literature of Music Bibliography (1992) and the
Norton/Grove handbook, Music Printing and Publishing (1990).
RICHARD LANDON is Director of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
at the University of Toronto. He has taught courses on various
aspects of the history of the book and rare book librarianship
at Toronto and at Columbia University, and he has published and
lectured widely in these and other fields.
JAMES MOSLEY is Librarian of the St Bride Printing Library in
London, the largest library of its kind in the English-speaking
world. He is a welcome lecturer in the United States on
typographical subjects. He was the founding editor of the
Journal of the Printing Historical Society.
JOHN PARKER recently retired as Professor and Curator of the
James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota/Twin
Cities. He has written extensively on the history of ex-
ploration and discovery, and on rare book librarianship.
NICHOLAS PICKWOAD became Conservator at the Harvard University
Library in 1992. He was formerly Adviser for Book Conservation
to the National Trust in the United Kingdom. These will be the
14th and 15th times he has taught this celebrated course in
RBS.
MICHAEL PLUNKETT is Director of Special Collections at the
University of Virginia Library. He is the author of Afro-
American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts (1990) and
an electronic edition of the same title published last year.
DAVID SEAMAN is the founding director of the nationally-known
Electronic Text Center and on-line archive at the University of
Virginia. He lectures and writes frequently on the creation and
use of electronic texts in the humanities.
DANIEL TRAISTER is Curator of Research Services in the Department
of Special Collections at the University of Pennsylvania. A
past chair of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of ACRL, he
has published important articles dealing with aspects of rare
book librarianship.
MICHAEL TWYMAN is head of the Department of Typography & Graphic
Communication at the University of Reading. He is the author of
Lithography 1800-1850 (1970), Early Lithographed Books (1990),
and other works on the history of lithography and printing.
JEANNE VEYRIN-FORRER is the retired Curator of Rare Books at the
Biblioth`eque Nationale. A collection of some of her writings,
La lettre et le texte: trente ann'ees de recherches sur
l'histoire du livre, was published in 1987.
DAVID WARRINGTON, Librarian for Special Collections at the
Harvard Law School since 1986, has worked at the Lilly Library
and in the antiquarian book trade.
MICHAEL WINSHIP is Associate Professor of English at the Uni-
versity of Texas at Austin. He edited the final three volumes
of the recently-completed nine-volume Bibliography of American
Literature. He is a frequent lecturer on subjects dealing with
American bibliography and book history.
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