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2008 Course Schedule

In 2008, Rare Book School offers about 30 five-day, non-credit courses in January and from June through August, held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (June - August), the Grolier Club in New York City (January), the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City (October), and at the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC (October). The tuition for each RBS course is $895. For information on this year's tuition, as well as other related costs, please visit the Ways and Means page of this website.

A MORE COMPLETE, hard-copy version (PDF) of the course schedule is also available. Please note that the list below is not as comprehensive as this hard-copy version.

See also: Related Institutes Around the World.

7-11 Jan in New York City

11 (H-40) The Printed Book in the West since 1800 Eric Holzenberg
12 (I-20) Book Illustration Processes to 1900 Terry Belanger

9-13 June in Charlottesville

21 (B-10) Introduction to the History of Bookbinding Jan Storm van Leeuwen
22 (G-30) Bibliographer's Toolkit: Printed Books since 1800New course! Tom Congalton & Katherine Reagan
23 (L-90) Designing Archival Description SystemsNew course! Daniel Pitti
24 (M-10) Introduction to Paleography, 800-1500 Consuelo Dutschke
25 (I-35) The Identification of Photographic Print ProcessesNew course! James M. Reilly, assisted by Ryan Boatright

16-20 June in Charlottesville

31 (H-55) History of American Music Printing and Publishing D.W. Krummel
32 (I-20) Book Illustration Processes to 1900 Terry Belanger
33 (L-70) Electronic Texts and Images David Seaman
34 (T-55) Type, Lettering, & Calligraphy, 1830-2000 James Mosley

7-11 July in Charlottesville

41 (H-10) History of the Book, 200-2000 John Buchtel & Mark Dimunation
42 (I-10) Introduction to the History of Illustration Erin C. Blake
43 (L-30) Rare Book Cataloging Deborah J. Leslie
44 (L-40) Visual Materials Cataloging Helena Zinkham

21-25 July in Charlottesville

51 (G-20) Bibliographer's Toolkit: Printed Books to 1800New course! David Whitesell
52 (H-20) The Book in the Manuscript Era Barbara Shailor
53 (L-10) Introduction to Special Collections Librarianship Alice Schreyer
54 (L-60) Introduction to Archives for Rare Book LibrariansNew course! Jackie Dooley & Bill Landis
55 (M-80) Western Manuscripts and Documents, 1500-2000 Nicolas Barker

28 July - 1 Aug in Charlottesville

61 (B-90) Publishers’ Bookbindings, 1830-1910 Sue Allen
62 (G-10) Introduction to the Principles of Bibliographical Description Richard Noble & David Gants
63 (H-50) The American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820-1940 Michael Winship
64 (I-30) Seminar in Book Illustration Processes Terry Belanger

20-24 October in Washington, DC

71 (I-90) The Art of the Book in Edo and Meiji Japan, 1615-1912New course! Ellis Tinios

20-24 October in NYC

81 (M-50) Introduction to Illuminated Manuscripts Roger S. Wieck

3-7 November in Baltimore

91 (M-20) Introduction to Western Codicology Albert Derolez
92 (I-20) Book Illustration Processes to 1900 Terry Belanger

5-9 January 2009 in Baltimore

11 (H-25) C15 Books in Print and Manuscript Paul Needham & William Noel
12 (B-50) Seminar in the History of Bookbinding Jan Storm van Leeuwen

Admission Decisions

Application forms for forthcoming RBS courses are available online. All applications are acknowledged upon receipt. Admission to RBS courses is on a rolling basis. Unless noted otherwise, early admit decisions for each course are made three months before the course begins. RBS accepts applications until the week in which the course runs.

Frequency of Course Offerings

Not all of the courses listed in the RBS Course Bulletin will be offered this year. Some courses are offered in alternate years, and on occasion RBS faculty members may wish to take an informal sabbatical, and their courses may disappear from the Schedule for a year or two as the result.

In general, however, all RBS courses not offered annually are on a two-year cycle, and courses missing from the Schedule this year may be expected with some (though not complete) confidence to reappear in the Schedule next year.

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