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  • Watch Newly Posted RBS Summer 2025 Lecture Videos

    Video recordings of our first two summer lectures are now available to watch online!

    A Parallel History of Books and Blooks
    Watch on YouTube
    Mindell Dubansky, Conservator, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Jane Austen on the Cheap
    Watch on YouTube
    Janine Barchas, Chancellor’s Council Centennial Professor in the Book Arts, University of Texas at Austin
    The Kenneth W. Rendell Endowed Lecture         

    If you like what you see, please join us—either in person or over Zoom—when our lecture series resumes in July. […]

    Posted on June 13, 2025 by RBS
  • Summer Protocols Regarding Infectious Illness

    Rare Book School Guidelines and Recommendations Regarding Infectious Illness

    Rare Book School is very excited to welcome back to Charlottesville—and to our partner institutions in Ann Arbor, Chapel Hill, Chicago, New Haven, Oxford (England), Philadelphia, Princeton, and Upperville, VA—the faculty, students, and lecturers who form the RBS community. In order to protect the health and well-being of this wonderful community of like-minded learners, we ask all those attending in-person courses and programs this summer to adhere to some basic public health precautions recommended by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local health experts at each course location. […]

    Posted on May 29, 2025 by RBS
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