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