RBS 1995: Course evaluations from former years of RBS courses
offered again this year.
Each year, RBS students complete a written evaluation the courses they
take; and each year these evaluations are printed in their
entirety in the annual RBS Yearbook, published about two
months after the close of RBS. (For a list of RBS Yearbooks
still in print and currently available, consult Book Arts Press
Publications in Print.) The RBS Yearbooks print
everything that everybody writes on their evaluation
forms about their courses, respondent by respondent in a consistent order
so that readers can track the responses of any particular individual (whose
answers will always be no. 4, or no. 11, or whatever) throughout a given
evaluation.
Set forth below are RBS student evaluations from former years for the
courses that are being offered again this year, together with the brochure
description of those courses as then offered (on occasion the
description of a course has changed somewhat between this year and the last
year in which it was taught).
Week One
11. The Company of Stationers to 1637.
Course offered for the first time in RBS 1995
12 Collecting Travel Literature.
13 Publishers' Bookbindings, 1830-1910.
14 Printing Design and Publication.
15 Collecting the History of Anglo-American Law.
16 Introduction to Electronic Texts.
Week Two
21 History of the Printed Book in the West
22 History of European and American Papermaking.
23 Book Illustration to 1890.
24 Lithography in the Age of the Hand Press.
25 The American Book in the Industrial Era: 1820-1914.
26 Introduction to Rare Book Librarianship
Week Three
31. History of the Printed Book in the West.
Taught in RBS 1994 by Alice Schreyer. For evaluation, see
no. 21
32 Type, Lettering, and Calligraphy, 1450-1830.
33. Book Production in c16 France.
Course offered for the first time in RBS 1995
34 Introduction to Rare Book Librarianship
35. Rare Book Libraries: A Perspective for Booksellers.
Course offered for the first time in RBS 1995
36. Introduction to Book Collecting.
Course offered for the first time in RBS 1995
Week Four
41 European Decorative Bookbinding.
42 European Bookbinding, 1500-1800
43 How to Research a Rare Book.
44 Rare Book Cataloging.
45. Visual Materials Cataloging.
Course offered for the first time in RBS 1995
46 Introduction to the Internet.
Week Five
51 Latin Paleography, 1100-1500.
52 Introduction to Medieval and Early Renaissance Bookbinding Structures
53. European Bookbinding, 1500-1800.
(See under no. 42; this course was offered only once in RBS 1994)
54 Introduction to Descriptive Bibliography.
55. Refocusing Special Collections. Course offered for the first
time in RBS 1995
56. Developing Special Collections of African-American Materials.
Course offered for the first time in RBS 1995