2008 Course Schedule

In 2008, Rare Book School offers about 30 five-day, non-credit courses in January and from June through August, held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (June - August), the Grolier Club in New York City (January), the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City (October), and at the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC (October). The tuition for each RBS course is $895. For information on this year's tuition, as well as other related costs, please visit the Ways and Means page of this website.

A MORE COMPLETE, hard-copy version (PDF) of the course schedule is also available. Please note that the list below is not as comprehensive as this hard-copy version.

See also: Related Institutes Around the World.

7-11 Jan in New York City
11 (H-40)	The Printed Book in the West since 1800	Eric Holzenberg
12 (I-20)	Book Illustration Processes to 1900	Terry Belanger
9-13 June in Charlottesville
21 (B-10)	Introduction to the History of Bookbinding	Jan Storm van Leeuwen
22 (G-30)	Bibliographer's Toolkit: Printed Books since 1800	Tom Congalton & Katherine Reagan
23 (L-90)	Designing Archival Description Systems	Daniel Pitti
24 (M-10)	Introduction to Paleography, 800-1500	Consuelo Dutschke
25 (I-35)	The Identification of Photographic Print Processes	James M. Reilly, assisted by Ryan Boatright
16-20 June in Charlottesville
31 (H-55)	History of American Music Printing and Publishing	D.W. Krummel
32 (I-20)	Book Illustration Processes to 1900	Terry Belanger
33 (L-70)	Electronic Texts and Images	David Seaman
34 (T-55)	Type, Lettering, & Calligraphy, 1830-2000	James Mosley
7-11 July in Charlottesville
41 (H-10)	History of the Book, 200-2000	John Buchtel & Mark Dimunation
42 (I-10)	Introduction to the History of Illustration	Erin C. Blake
43 (L-30)	Rare Book Cataloging	Deborah J. Leslie
44 (L-40)	Visual Materials Cataloging	Helena Zinkham
21-25 July in Charlottesville
51 (G-20)	Bibliographer's Toolkit: Printed Books to 1800	David Whitesell
52 (H-20)	The Book in the Manuscript Era	Barbara Shailor
53 (L-10)	Introduction to Special Collections Librarianship	Alice Schreyer
54 (L-60)	Introduction to Archives for Rare Book Librarians	Jackie Dooley & Bill Landis
55 (M-80)	Western Manuscripts and Documents, 1500-2000	Nicolas Barker
28 July - 1 Aug in Charlottesville
61 (B-90)	Publishers’ Bookbindings, 1830-1910	Sue Allen
62 (G-10)	Introduction to the Principles of Bibliographical Description	Richard Noble & David Gants
63 (H-50)	The American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820-1940	Michael Winship
64 (I-30)	Seminar in Book Illustration Processes	Terry Belanger
20-24 October in Washington, DC
71 (I-90)	The Art of the Book in Edo and Meiji Japan, 1615-1912	Ellis Tinios
20-24 October in NYC
81 (M-50)	Introduction to Illuminated Manuscripts	Roger S. Wieck
3-7 November in Baltimore
91 (M-20)	Introduction to Western Codicology	Albert Derolez
92 (I-20)	Book Illustration Processes to 1900	Terry Belanger
5-9 January 2009 in Baltimore
11 (H-25)	C15 Books in Print and Manuscript	Paul Needham & William Noel
12 (B-50)	Seminar in the History of Bookbinding	Jan Storm van Leeuwen

Admission Decisions

Application forms for forthcoming RBS courses are available online. All applications are acknowledged upon receipt. Admission to RBS courses is on a rolling basis. Unless noted otherwise, early admit decisions for each course are made three months before the course begins. RBS accepts applications until the week in which the course runs.

Frequency of Course Offerings

Not all of the courses listed in the RBS Course Bulletin will be offered this year. Some courses are offered in alternate years, and on occasion RBS faculty members may wish to take an informal sabbatical, and their courses may disappear from the Schedule for a year or two as the result.

In general, however, all RBS courses not offered annually are on a two-year cycle, and courses missing from the Schedule this year may be expected with some (though not complete) confidence to reappear in the Schedule next year.