[Cross-posted; please excuse duplication]
RARE BOOK SCHOOL (RBS) is pleased to announce its Spring and Summer Sessions
2005, a collection of five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning rare
books, manuscripts, the history of books and printing, and special
collections. Classes will be held at the University of Virginia in
Charlottesville, VA; at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore; and at the
Freer/Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC.
For an application form and electronic copies of the complete brochure and
the RBS Expanded Course Descriptions, providing additional details about the
courses offered and other information about RBS, visit our web site at:
http://www.rarebookschool.org <http://www.rarebookschool.org/>
Subscribers to Arlis-L may find the following Rare Book School courses to be
of particular interest:
I-20 Book Illustration Processes to 1890
Terry Belanger :: 6-10 June, University of Virginia
The identification of illustration processes and techniques, including (but
not only) woodcut, etching, engraving, stipple, aquatint, mezzotint,
lithography, wood engraving, steel engraving, process line and halftone
relief, collotype, photogravure, and color printing. The course will be
taught almost entirely from the extensive Rare Book School files of examples
of illustration processes.
I-30 Seminar in Book Illustration Processes
Terry Belanger :: 18-22 July, University of Virginia
This seminar provides those who have already taken Book Illustration
Processes to 1890 (I-20) with a further opportunity to work with files and
packets containing original illustrations (the basic course uses only about
a quarter of the school's 400 illustration packets), and to look at some of
the notable illustrated books in the UVa and RBS collections. The seminar
will concentrate on book illustration between 1770 and 1914, though there
will also be discussion of framing prints, ephemera, and maps, and some
mention of earlier prints. More time will be spent on the historical
contexts in which illustrations are produced than was the case with the
basic course, but the focus of the seminar will nevertheless be more on
identification techniques than on the aesthetic or social aspects of book
illustration.
Terry Belanger <http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/tbvita.html> , founding
director of Rare Book School <http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/rbs/> , is
University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections
<http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol> at the University of Virginia
<http://www.virginia.edu> .
L-30 Rare Book Cataloging
Deborah J. Leslie :: 7-11 March & 18-22 July, University of Virginia
Aimed at catalog librarians who find that their present duties include (or
shortly will include) the cataloging of rare books or special collections
materials. Attention will be given primarily to cataloging books from the
hand-press period, with some discussion given to c19 and c20 books in a
special collections context. Topics include: comparison of rare book and
general cataloging; application of codes and standards (especially DCRB);
uses of special files; problems in transcription, collation and physical
description; and setting cataloging policy within an institutional context.
This course -- restricted to working catalogers experienced in AACR2r, MARC,
and general cataloging principles and practices -- will provide training in
the application of Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books (DCRB). Lectures,
discussion, and exercises will center around the following topics: DCRB and
the differences between rare book and general cataloging; a brief
introduction to printing and binding in the hand-press era; basic concepts
of edition, issue, and state; the organization of the cataloging record,
including levels of detail and variety of access points; problems in
transcription, format and collation, and physical description; recent
developments in codes and standards; the uses and requirements of special
files; and setting rare book and/or special collections cataloging policy
within an institutional context. The goal of this course is to provide
practice in each of the primary elements of the rare book catalog record, so
that students will be equipped to begin cataloging their institutions' rare
book and special collections materials. Although some attention will be
given to post- 1800 books, the primary focus will be on books of the
hand-press era.
Deborah J. Leslie is Head of Cataloging at the Folger
<http://www.folger.edu> Shakespeare Library, before which she held
positions as rare book cataloger at Yale University and at the Library
Company of Philadelphia. She is the chair of the RBMS Bibliographic
Standards Committee.
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Posted by Nathaniel Adams on behalf of Rare Book School
Rare Book School
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University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4103
Phone: 434-924-8851
Fax: 434-924-8824
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