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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:
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, founding director of Rare Book School, is University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia.
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 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
114 Alderman Library
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4103
Phone: 434-924-8851
Fax: 434-924-8824