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Dear ARLIS community,

The following message is sent on behalf of Susan M. Allen. Please forgive duplication.

2012 California Rare Book School—APPLY NOW!!

Scholarships available—deadline: June 15^th, 2012

We are pleased to announce that in 2012, California Rare Book School will offer 12 courses on topics of interest to librarians, archivists, scholars, booksellers, collectors, and students. Each course meets from 9-5 pm for one week. Scholarship opportunities are available!

In 2012, the inaugural Samuel H. Kress Foundation-Dr. Franklin D. Murphy Scholarship will be available for art librarians, art historians, and students studying to enter these professions. The scholarship may be used for any course offered by California Rare Book School.  These scholarships will cover full tuition and, for attendees from outside of the Los Angeles area, up to an additional $1,000 for travel expenses. Students who wish to be considered for a Kress-Murphy Scholarship should submit the supplemental form, an essay and a letter of recommendation along with their completed application form.

For more details, course descriptions, and course/scholarship applications please visit:  

www.calrbs.org

If you have additional questions please contact us at: [log in to unmask]

Week 1—July 30^th-August 3^rd

(classes held in Los Angeles on the UCLA campus):

• Book Collecting for Private and Institutional Collections—Bruce Whiteman (Williams Andrews Clark Memorial Library)

• History, Identification, and Preservation of Photographic Materials—Gawain Weaver (UCLA-GSE&IS)

• History of the Book: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries—Jeffrey D. Groves (UCLA-GSE&IS)

• Intellectual Property and Other Legal Issues for Rare Books and Manuscripts—Maureen Whalen (UCLA-GSE&IS)

• Special Collections Librarianship: History, Theory, and Practice—Laura Stalker & Carrie Marsh (UCLA-GSE&IS)

Week 2—August 6^th-August 10^th

(classes are held in Los Angeles on the UCLA campus):

• History of the Book in Hispanic America, 16^th-19^th Centuries—Daniel J. Slive & David Szewczyk (UCLA-GSE&IS)

• Old Books for Young Children—Ruth B. Bottigheimer (UCLA-GSE&IS)

• Technology of Electronic Records—Jacob Nadal (UCLA-GSE&IS)

• “What’s Past is Prologue”: An Introduction to Archives for Historians and Librarians—Daniel Lewis (UCLA-GSE&IS

Week 3—November 5^th-9^th

 (classes held in the Bay Area of Northern California):

• Books of the Far West, with an Emphasis on California—Gary Kurutz (California Historical Society, S.F.)

• Donors and Libraries—Susan M. Allen & William P. Barlow (Co-sponsored by The Book Club of California, S.F.)

• Rare Book Cataloging—Randal Brandt (UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library)

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