Greer Allen has designed publications for Colonial Williamsburg, the
Houghton, the Metropolitan, the Rosenbach, Stanford, 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 19th-century
American book covers. Her research, lectures, writings, and
exhibitions guide librarians and conservators in the selective
preservation of English and American bindings of the 19th and early
20th centuries. She has taught in RBS since 1983.
Martin Antonetti became
Curator of Rare Books at Smith College in
1997, before which he was Librarian of the Grolier Club. Until 1990,
he was head of Special Collections at Mills College, where he
regularly taught courses in the history of books and printing.
Paul N. Banks founded the nation's first book conservation education
program at Columbia University in 1981, and he has continued to teach
in the program since its transfer to the University of Texas in
1992. Between 1964 and 1981, he was Conservator at the Newberry
Library in Chicago.
William 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. Last year the Book Arts
Press, which he founded in 1972, celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Morris L. Cohen
was Professor of Law and head of the law libraries
successively at Harvard and Yale before his retirement as librarian in
1993. He is a well-known legal bibliographer and collector.
Albert Derolez is a professor at the Free Universities of Brussels; he
was formerly Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Library of
the State University of Ghent. He is the author of Codicologie des
manuscrits en icriture humanistique sur parchemin (1984) and other
books. He is President of the Comiti International de Paliographie
Latine.
Mirjam Foot is Director of Collections and Preservation in the British
Library. She is the author of many books and articles on the history
of bookbinding, including Studies in the History of Bookbinding (1993)
and (with Howard Nixon) The History of Decorated Bookbinding in
England (1992). She delivered the 1997 Panizzi Lectures at the British
Library.
Eric Holzenberg is Director/Librarian of the Grolier Club in New York
City. He is the outgoing chair of the Bibliographic Standards
Committee of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the
Association of College & Research Libraries.
Sandy Kita, Assistant Professor of Japanese Art at the University of
Maryland, is the author of articles and books on Ukiyo-e, including
the 1996 catalog, A Hidden Treasure: Japanese Woodblock Prints in the
James Austin Collection. His book on Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei will be
published this year by the University of Hawaii Press.
D. W. Krummel is Professor of Library Science and Music at the
University of Illinois at Urbana. His writings in music printing and
the history of bibliography include Bibliographies, Their Aims and
Methods (1984).
Deborah J. Leslie
is Rare Book Catalog Librarian at Yale University,
before which she worked at the Library Company of Philadelphia.
James Mosley is Librarian of the St Bride Printing Library in London,
the largest library of its kind in the English-speaking world. He was
the founding editor of the Journal of the Printing Historical Society.
Paul Needham became Curator of the Scheide Collection at the Princeton
University Library earlier this year, before which he worked at
Sotheby's and the Pierpont Morgan Library. He has given RBS Master
Classes on early printed books at the Morgan and at the Huntington
Library.
Richard Noble is Rare Books Cataloguer at the John Hay Library, Brown
University. He is co-author (with Joan Crane) of Guy Davenport: A
Descriptive Bibliography 1947-1995 (1996).
Nicholas Pickwoad is a book conservator in private practice. From 1992
to 1995, he was Conservator at the Harvard University Library, before
which he was Advisor to the [English] National Trust for
Conservation. This will be the 19th time he has taught his celebrated
course at RBS.
Daniel Pitti became Project Director at the University of Virginia's
Institute for
Advanced Technology in 1997, before which he was Librarian for
Advanced Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley. He
was the Coordinator of the Encoded Archival Description initiative.
David Seaman is the founding director of the nationally-known Electronic Text Center an
on-line archive at the University of Virginia. He lectures and writes
frequently on SGML, the Internet, and the creation and use of
electronic texts in the humanities.
Samuel A. 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.
Suzy Taraba became
University Archivist
at Wesleyan University in
1997, before which she worked in Special Collections at the University
of Chicago and at Duke University, where she was head of the Rare
Materials Cataloging Unit.
Merrily E. Taylor became University Librarian at Brown University
after working in libraries at Yale and Columbia Universities. Her
duties have required extensive involvement with planning, budgeting,
public relations, building projects, and fund-raising. .
Daniel Traister
is Curator of Research Services in the Department of Special
Collections at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published
important articles on rare book librarianship. He has taught annually
in RBS since 1983.
Michael Twyman is Professor in 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.
David Warrington, Librarian for
Special Collections
at the Harvard Law
School since 1986, has worked at the Lilly Library and in the
antiquarian book trade.
Michael Winship is Professor of English at the University of Texas at
Austin. He edited the final three volumes of the nine-volume
Bibliography of American Literature. He is the author of American
Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of
Ticknor and Fields (1995). He has taught annually in RBS since 1983.
Helena Zinkham worked as a reference and technical services librarian
at both the Maryland and New-York Historical societies before joining
the
Prints and Photographs Division
of the Library of Congress, where
she is head of the Technical Services Section.
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