Rare Book School 1996 Faculty


Greer Allen has designed publications for the Houghton Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, and many other libraries and museums. He was formerly Yale University Printer.

Sue Allen is recognized as the foremost authority on c19 American book covers. Her detailed research, lectures, writings, and exhibitions guide librarians and conservators in the selective preservation of English and American bindings of the c19.

Martin Antonetti is Librarian of the Grolier Club in New York City, before which he was head of Special Collections at Mills College, where he regularly taught courses in the history of books and printing.

Wm P. Barlow, Jr is a partner in the Oakland, CA, accounting firm of Barlow & Hughan. He has advised many individuals and institutions on bibliographical tax matters both in a professional capacity and as an officer of library friends' groups.

Terry Belanger founded RBS in 1983 at Columbia University. Since 1992, he has been University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia.

Peter Blayney is the author of The Texts of King Lear and Their Origins: Nicolas Okes and the First Quarto (1982), The Bookshops in Paul's Cross Churchyard (1990), The First Folio of Shakespeare (1991) and other studies dealing with the early English book trade.

Peter-john Byrnes has served as Web and computer consultant to both the private and public sectors. His clients have included Swiss Bank as well as the University of Virginia.

Katharine E. S. Donahue is Head of History and Special Collections at the Louise Darling Biomedical Library at UCLA.

Jackie Dooley is Head of Special Collections and University Archives at the University of California, Irvine, before which she was head of Collections Cataloging at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities.

David Ferris is Curator of Rare Books at the Harvard University Law School. Connected with RBS since 1986, he has been its Associate Director since 1990.

Eric Holzenberg is cataloguer at the Grolier Club in New York City. He is the chair of the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of the ACRL.

Joan Echtenkamp Klein is Assistant Director for Historical Collections and Services at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library.

D. W. Krummel is Professor of Library Science and Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana. His full-length studies include Bibliographies, Their Aims and Methods (1984).

Richard Landon is Director of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. He has taught courses on various aspects of the history of the book and rare book librarianship at Toronto and at Columbia University, and he has published and lectured widely in these fields.

James Mosley is Librarian of the St Bride Printing Library in London, the largest library of its kind in the English-speaking world. He is a welcome lecturer in the United States on typographical subjects. He was the founding editor of the Journal of the Printing Historical Society.

Paul Needham is director of the Books and Manuscripts Department, Sotheby's New York. Until 1990, he was Astor Curator of Printed Books and Bindings at the Pierpont Morgan Library. He is a well-known specialist in the study of early printing.

Nicholas Pickwoad is a book conservator in private practice. Between 1992 and 1995, he was Conservator at the Harvard University Library. This will be the 16th time he has taught this celebrated course in RBS.

Justin G. Schiller is President of Justin G. Schiller Ltd, the nation's foremost antiquarian bookselling firm specializing in historical children's literature. This is the fifth time he has taught an RBS course related to the historical bibliography of children's literature.

David Seaman is the founding director of the nationally-known Electronic Text Center and on-line archive at the University of Virginia. He lectures and writes frequently on SGML, the Internet, and the creation and use of etexts in the humanities.

Samuel Streit is Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at Brown University, where his duties have included renovating the John Hay Library, developing public relations strategies, and undertaking a major expansion of the Friends of the Library.

Merrily E. Taylor assumed her present post of University Librarian at Brown University after working in libraries at Yale and Columbia. Her duties have required extensive involvement with planning, budgeting, public relations, building projects, and fund-raising.

Kelly Tetterton is a User Education and Networked Information specialist at the UVa Library, where her duties include developing and teaching Internet courses and helping to maintain the Library's Internet resources.

Daniel Traister is Curator of Research Services in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Pennsylvania. A past chair of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of ACRL, he has published important articles on rare book librarianship.

Michael Twyman is head of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. He is the author of Lithography 1800-1850 (1970), Early Lithographed Books (1990), and Early Lithographed Music (1996), among other works on the history of lithography and printing.

Michael Winship is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He edited the final three volumes of the recently-completed nine-volume Bibliography of American Literature. He is a frequent lecturer on subjects dealing with American bibliography and book history.