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[BKARTS] RBS Freshest Advices: November 2007
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Rare Book School FRESHEST ADVICES November 2007
RBS 2008 COURSE SCHEDULE
The schedule for most of the courses to be offered in 2008 has been
posted on our website: see
<http://www.rarebookschool.org/schedule/>Current Schedule. Six new
RBS courses will be offered in 2008:
BIBLIOGRAPHERS' TOOLKIT COURSES (G-20 and G-30)
Bibliographers'
Toolkit<http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/general/g20/>: Printed
Books to 1800, taught by David Whitesell (American Antiquarian
Society) will run 21-25 July; its mate, Bibliographers'
Toolkit<http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/general/g30/>: Printed
Books since 1800, co-taught by Tom Congalton (Between the Covers) and
Katherine Reagan (Cornell) will run 9-13 June. This pair of new
courses is intended for those seeking a better understanding of how
to recognize, evaluate and describe the physical aspects of printed materials.
<http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/libraries/l90/>DESIGNING
ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION SYSTEMS (L-90)
This new course, taught by Daniel Pitti (UVa), will explore in detail
markup and database technologies, efforts underway to integrate the
two technologies, and the opportunity provided by this integration
for transforming archival description.
<http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/libraries/l60/>INTRODUCTION TO
ARCHIVES FOR RARE BOOK LIBRARIANS (L-60)
Co-taught by Jackie Dooley (UC Irvine) and Bill Landis (Yale), this
course is intended for those whose education and experience are
principally rare book-oriented who now find themselves working with
archival materials or managing the work of archivists.
<http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/illustration/i90/>THE ART OF
THE BOOK IN EDO AND MEIJI JAPAN, 1615-1912 (I-90)
The illustrated woodblock printed books produced in Japan in the Edo
and Meiji periods represent a remarkable achievement in terms of
their technical perfection, broad range of styles and subject matter,
and their beauty; no comparable sustained tradition of artistically
significant printed illustrated books existed in China or the West.
Taught by Ellis Tinios (University of Leeds) as a complement to his
existing RBS course: Japanese Illustrated Books, 1615-1858 (I-85).
We expect that a sixth new course will be offered at Princeton in
October on the history of children's books, co-taught by Andrea Immel
(Princeton) and Justin G. Schiller (Justin G. Schiller Ltd); further
details shortly.
A seventh new course,
<http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/history/h65/>Introduction to
the History, Collection, Description, and Use of Maps (H-65), taught
by Alice Hudson (NYPL), will debut in RBS 2009.
RBS SETS UP A FACEBOOK GROUP
Ryan Roth, RBS program officer, has set up an open Facebook group.
We've just begun to load some RBS 2007 photographs onto the site;
stay tuned. For more information on joining Facebook (which is free),
see www.facebook.com
Terry Belanger
University Professor, Honorary Curator of Special Collections
Director, Rare Book School : University of
Virginia
Rare Book School : PO 400103 : Charlottesville, VA 22904-4103
Email belanger@xxxxxxxxxxxx : Phone 434-924-8851 : Fax 434-924-8824
URL < http://www.rarebookschool.org>
Terry Belanger
University Professor, Honorary Curator of Special Collections
Director, Rare Book School : University of
Virginia
Rare Book School : PO 400103 : Charlottesville, VA 22904-4103
Email belanger@xxxxxxxxxxxx : Phone 434-924-8851 : Fax 434-924-8824
URL <http://www.rarebookschool.org>
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