Dear ARLIS-L Subscribers:

     You will find below the schedule for 2012 California Rare Book School.  We are offering three weeks of courses again this year, and one week (November 5-9) in the San Francisco Bay area.  I hope you will share this schedule with colleagues.   Complete descriptions of all the courses and brief bios for the instructors can be found on the CalRBS Web site - www.calrbs.org.  Scholarships are also available, especially for art librarians (see below).   If I or Project Manager, Nora Bloch, can answer any questions you may have, don't hesitate to contact us.  All good wishes, Susan


2012 California Rare Book School--APPLY NOW AT:   http://www.calrbs.org

Scholarships available-deadline: June 15th, 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 scholarship application form, an essay and a letter of recommendation along with their completed course application form.
 
For more details, course descriptions, and course/scholarship applications please visit:  www.calrbs.org <http://www.calrbs.org/> 
 
If you have additional questions please contact us at: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
 
Week 1-July 30th-August 3rd
(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 6th-August 10th
(classes are held in Los Angeles on the UCLA campus):


. History of the Book in Hispanic America, 16th-19th 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 5th-9th
 (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)




Susan M Allen, Ph.D.
Director, California Rare Book School
209 GSEIS Building Box 951520
300 Charles E. Young Drive N.
Los Angeles, CA  90095-1520
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310-206-5323

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