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Week One |
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Lithography in the Age of the Hand Press. This course, which
explores a wide range of applications of lithography in Europe, is
aimed at those concerned with books, prints, and ephemera especially
of the first half of the C19. Topics: Senefelder and the discovery of
lithography; lithographic stones and presses; the work of the
lithographic draftsman, letterer, and printer; early lithographed
books and other printing; the development of particular genres,
including music printing; chromolithography. Instructor:
Michael
Twyman.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Publishers' Bookbindings, 1830-1910. The study of publishers'
bookbindings, chiefly in the US, but with frequent reference to
England, and occasional reference to Continental developments. Topics:
the rise of the edition binder; design styles and how they developed;
new techniques, machines, and materials introduced in the C19; the
identification of rarities; the physical description of bindings; the
preservation of publishers' bindings. The course will make extensive
use of the Book Arts Press's notable collection of C19 and early C20
binding exemplars. Instructor: Sue
Allen.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Printing Design and Publication. In today's museums, libraries, and
other cultural institutions, the texts for instructions,
announcements, newsletters - even full-dress catalogs - are composed
on microcomputers, often by staff members with scant graphic design
background. This course stresses the creation of appropriate design
using readily-available software, covering products generated via
laser printer and photocopier as well as complex work involving
commercial printers. Prime concerns are institutional authority and
clients' expectations. Instructor: Greer
Allen.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Introduction to Rare Book Librarianship. Overview of the theory and
practice of rare book librarianship. Topics include: the function of
rare books in libraries; the interpretation of rare book collections
to their publics; patterns of use; special collections reference
materials; security; environmental desiderata; exhibitions and
publications; and friends' groups. Instructor: Daniel Traister.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Advanced Seminar in Special Collections Administration. Tactics
special collections librarians may use for interpreting needs and
objectives to their administrations; assuring an active role for
special collections in the research and curricular programs of their
institutions; fund-raising, including the most effective use of
friends' groups; coping with tight budgets; integrating digitization
projects into daily operations; taking part effectively in library
reorganization and re-engineering projects; and measuring the success
of the strategies selected. Instructors: Samuel
A. Streit and Merrily
E. Taylor.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Implementing Encoded Archival Description (Session I). Encoded
Archival Description (EAD) provides standardized machine-readable
access to primary resource materials. This course is aimed at
archivists, librarians, and museum personnel who would like an
introduction to EAD that includes an extensive supervised hands-on
component. Students will learn SGML encoding techniques in part using
examples selected from among their own institution's finding
aids. Topics: the context out of which EAD emerged; introduction to
the use of SGML authoring tools and browsers; the conversion of
existing finding aids to EAD. Offered again in Week 3 (see
no. 37). Instructor: Daniel Pitti.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Week Two |
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History of the Printed Book in the West. Early printed books;
printing processes; bookbinding; typography and book design;
publishing, reading, and the book trade; the book in America and
American books; book illustration; C19 mechanization of the printing
trades; C20 fine printing. Intended for those with no prior course
work or extensive reading in the field. Instructor: Martin Antonetti.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Book Illustration to 1890. The identification of illustration
processes and techniques, including woodcut, etching, engraving,
stipple, aquatint, mezzotint, lithography, wood engraving, steel
engraving, process relief, collotype, photogravure, and color
printing. The course will be taught almost entirely from the extensive
Book Arts Press files of examples of illustration processes. As part
of the course, students will make their own etchings, drypoints, and
relief cuts in supervised laboratory sessions. Instructor:
Terry
Belanger.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Collecting the History of Anglo-American Law. Intended for
individual book collectors who collect in some aspect of the history
of the law and for librarians who have custody of historical legal
materials, this course will survey printed and MS materials in
Anglo-American law and introduce its bibliography and
curatorship. Topics include the history of the production and
distribution of law books; catalogs and reference books; philosophy
and techniques of collecting; and acquiring books, MSS, and ephemera
in the antiquarian book trade. Instructors:
Morris L. Cohen and
David Warrington.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Rare Book Cataloging. Aimed at catalog librarians who find that
their present duties include (or shortly will include) the cataloging
of rare books and/or special collections materials. Attention will be
given both to cataloging books from the hand-press period and to C19
and C20 books in a special collections context. Topics include:
comparison of rare book and general cataloging; application of codes
and standards; uses of special files; problems in transcription,
collation and physical description; and setting cataloging policy
within an institutional context. Instructor:
Deborah J. Leslie.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Visual Materials Cataloging. Aimed at librarians and archivists who
catalog published or unpublished visual materials. The emphasis will
be on C19 and C20 prints and photographs being cataloged either as
single items or as part of archival collections. Topics include:
descriptive and subject cataloging; form and genre access; special
problems in physical description; comparison of AMC and VIM
cataloging; the relationship between physical processing and
cataloging; establishing institutional priorities. Instructor:
Helena Zinkham.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Rare Book Cataloging for Curators. Aimed at curators and special
collections librarians with substantial bibliographical knowledge but
little or no cataloging background who find that their present duties
include (or shortly will include) the cataloging of rare books and/or
special collections materials. Participants will be introduced to
AACR, DCRB, the MARC format, and basic principles of online
cataloging. Topics include: comparison of library rare-book cataloging
and traditional bibliographic techniques; general library cataloging
principles as applied to rare materials; application of codes and
standards. Instructors:
Eric Holzenberg and
Suzy Taraba.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Introduction to Electronic Texts and Images (Session I). A practical
exploration of the research, preservation, editing, and pedagogical
uses of electronic texts and images in the humanities. The course will
center around the creation of a set of archival-quality etexts and
digital images, for which we shall also create an Encoded Archival
Description guide. Topics include: SGML tagging and conversion; using
the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines; the form and implications of
XML; publishing on the World Wide Web; text analysis tools; and the
management and use of online texts. See
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Introduction to Codicology. The principles, bibliography, and
methodology of the analysis and description of Western medieval and
Renaissance manuscripts. Survey of the development of the physical
features of manuscript books from the C5 to the C15. This is a course
for non-specialists, but applicants must have considerable background
in the historical humanities; in admitting students to the class, the
instructor will prefer those with at least an introductory knowledge
of Latin and some previous exposure to paleography. Instructor:
Albert Derolez.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Type, Lettering, and Calligraphy, 1450-1830. The development of the
major formal and informal book hands, the dominant printing types of
each period, and their interrelationship. Topics include: the Gothic
hands; humanistic script; the Renaissance inscriptional capital;
Garamond and the spread of the Aldine Roman; calligraphy from the
chancery italic to the English round hand; the neo-classical book and
its typography; and early commercial typography. The course
presupposes a general knowledge of Western history and some awareness
of the continuity of the Latin script but no special knowledge of
typographical history. Instructor:
James Mosley.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Japanese Printmaking, 1615-1868. A survey of Ukiyo-e, the art of the
Japanese woodblock print. Ukiyo-e literally means floating world art,
and it is through an exploration of the Floating World that produced
this art that we come to understand it. The course considers how the
Floating World developed in the C17 out of the earlier court culture,
how it created an interest in the courtesans, actors, and famous
places of Japan that became the chief subject-matter of C17-C19
printmakers, and how it declined and changed in the late C19. The
course will take advantage of the extensive collection of Japanese
prints owned by UVa's Bayly Museum. Instructor:
Sandy Kita.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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The American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820-1940. This course will
explore manufacturing methods, distribution networks, and publishing
patterns introduced in the US during the industrial era. The course
will include laboratory sessions in which students will examine,
analyze, and describe books produced during the period and will allow
students the opportunity to discuss their own research projects with
the instructor. The course will also introduce students to
bibliographical practice and conventions as they apply to these
books. Instructor:
Michael Winship.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Book Collecting. This course is aimed at persons who spend a fairly
substantial amount of time, energy, and money on collecting, but who
feel rather isolated from the national (and international) antiquarian
book communities. Topics include: the rationale of book collecting;
developing relations with dealers; buying at auction and via the
Internet; evaluating prices; bibliophile and friends' groups;
preservation, conservation, and insurance options; tax and other
financial implications; what finally to do with your books; and the
literature of book collecting. Instructors:
William P. Barlow, Jr and
Terry Belanger.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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How to Research a Rare Book. Strategies for the efficient
identification and interpretation of the bibliographies that are most
useful for work with rare and early printed books; aimed at reference
and collection management librarians, antiquarian booksellers,
catalogers, and others who routinely research rare books. Sources
primarily in English and in the other major Roman-alphabet languages,
but some attention will be paid to non-Western sources as
well. Instructor:
D. W. Krummel.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Implementing Encoded Archival Description (Session II). This course
will be offered twice in RBS 1998; for a description of the course,
see no. 16. This session (Session II) is aimed at those who have
already had some formal training in EAD; Session I is aimed at those
without previous exposure to the subject. Instructor:
Daniel Pitti.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Week Four |
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European Decorative Bookbinding. An historical survey of decorative
bookbinding in England and on the European Continent, concentrating on
the period 1500-1800, but with examples drawn from the late C7 to the
late C20. Topics include: the emergence and development of various
decorative techniques and styles; readership and collecting; the
history of bookbinding in a wider historical context; the pitfalls and
possibilities of binding research. Enrollment in this course is
strictly limited to those who have already taken Nicholas Pickwoad's
RBS bookbinding course, European Bookbinding, 1500-1800 (see
no. 43). Instructor:
Mirjam Foot.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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The Use of Physical Evidence in Early Printed Books. The use of a
wide variety of evidence - paper, type, rubrication and illumination,
bindings, ownership marks, and annotations - to shed light both on
questions of analytical bibliography and wider questions of book
distribution, provenance, and use. There will be a fairly detailed
discussion and analysis of both good and bad features in existing
reference works on early printing. The seminar assumes a basic
knowledge of descriptive bibliography and some familiarity with
Latin. Instructor:
Paul Needham.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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European Bookbinding, 1500-1800. How bookbinding in the
post-medieval period developed to meet the demands placed on it by the
growth of printing: techniques and materials employed to meet these
demands; the development of temporary bindings (for example, pamphlets
and publishers' bindings); the emergence of structures usually
associated with volume production in the C19; the dating of
undecorated bindings; the identification of national and local binding
styles. Instructor:
Nicholas Pickwoad.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Introduction to Descriptive Bibliography. An introduction to the
physical examination and description of printed books, especially of
the period 1550-1875. Designed both for those with little previous
formal exposure to this subject and for those with some general
knowledge of the field who wish to be presented with a systematic
discussion of the elements of physical description. A major part of
the course will consist of small, closely supervised laboratory
sessions in which students will gain practice in determining format
and collation and in writing standard descriptions of signings and
pagination. In daily museum sessions, students will have the
opportunity to see a wide variety of printed books drawn from the
extensive Book Arts Press laboratory collections. Instructors:
Terry Belanger and
Richard Noble.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Non-Book Media in Special Collections. This course is directed at
rare book and preservation librarians whose responsibilities include
the management of non-print media housed in special collections
environments, including (but not limited to) photographs,
motion-picture film, audiotapes and videotapes, computer media, and
collections of realia. Topics include: environmental strategies;
issues of storage, handling, and access; the use of substitutional
formats; lessons to be gained from the museum world. Instructor:
Paul N. Banks.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Introduction to Electronic Texts and Images (Session II). This
course will be offered twice in RBS 1998; for a description of the
course, see no. 26. Instructor:
David Seaman.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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