Greer Allen has designed publications for the
Houghton Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Rosenbach Museum
and Library, 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.
Martin Antonetti became Curator of Rare
Books at Smith College in February, before which he was Librarian of
the Grolier Club. Between 1986 and 1990, 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.
Timothy D. Barrett is Research Scientist at
the University of Iowa Center for the Book. His publications include
the standard Japanese Papermaking: Traditions, Tools and Techniques
(1983) and other books and articles on the history of both oriental
and western papermaking.
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. This year the Book Arts Press, which he founded in 1972,
celebrates its 25th anniversary.
John Bidwell is Curator of Graphic Arts at
Princeton University's Firestone Library, and he has also been Curator
of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of
Technology and Librarian of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
at UCLA. He has written extensively on the history of American
papermaking.
Brett Charbeneau became a journeyman
printer at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in 1994 by completing
a six-year apprenticeship. Project Coordinator of the Williamsburg Imprints Program, he
was recently appointed Systems Administrator at the Williamsburg Regional Library.
Christopher Clarkson directs the Book and
Manuscript Conservation Workshops and their related internship program
at West Dean College, Sussex. Formerly Conservation Officer at the
Bodleian Library, Oxford University, he also helped develop rare book
conservation programs at the Library of Congress. An internationally
renowned consultant on the care of medieval manuscripts and bindings,
he has taught courses in RBS since 1983.
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. Earlier this year, he taught an RBS
Master Class on European codicology at Princeton University.
Eric Holzenberg is cataloguer and Acting
Librarian 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 Association of College & Research Libraries, a division
of the American Library Association.
D. W. Krummel is Professor of Library
Science and Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana. His many
full-length studies include Bibliographies, Their Aims and Methods
(1984) and the standard Guide for Dating Early Published Music: A
Manual of Bibliographical Practices (1974).
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
MSS Department, Sotheby's New York. Until 1990, he was Astor Curator
of Printed Books & Bindings at 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). He has
been associated with the RBS descriptive bibliography course since
1988.
Nicholas Pickwoad is a book conservator in
private practice. Between 1992-1995, he was Conservator at the
Harvard University Library, before which he was Advisor to the
[English] National Trust for Conservation. This will be the 17th time
he has taught his celebrated course at RBS.
Daniel Pitti became Project Director at the
University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology earlier
this year, before which he was Librarian for Advanced Technologies at
the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Coordinator of the
Encoded Archival Description initiative.
Michael T. Ryan is Director of Special
Collections at the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, University of
Pennsylvania, and he has also worked in special collections at
Stanford and the University of Chicago. This spring, he is co-teaching
a course at Penn with Daniel Traister on the reception of popular
literature in the early modern and modern periods.
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 electronic texts in the humanities.
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. He has taught annually in RBS
since 1983.
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 Professor of English at
the University of Texas at Austin. He edited the final three volumes
of the nine-volume Bibliography of American Literature. The Cambridge
University Press published his American Literary Publishing in the
Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields in 1995. In
January, he received the American Printing History Association's
annual award for his contributions to printing history.
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