Past Years
Course Evaluations
Rare Book School employs a widely admired—though rarely imitated—course evaluation system in which attendees
write detailed prose accounts of their experience at the school. Their comments are then mounted permanently and
in their entirety on the school's website.
5-9 January 2009 in Baltimore, MD
11 (B-50)
Seminar in the History of Bookbinding Jan Storm van Leeuwen
12 (H-25)
c15 Books in Print and Manuscript Paul Needham & William Noel
8-12 June 2009 in Charlottesville, VA
21 (G-20)
Bibliographers’ Toolkit: Printed Books to 1800 David Whitesell
22 (G-30)
Bibliographers’ Toolkit: Printed Books since 1800 Tom Congalton & Katherine Reagan
23 (L-70)
Electronic Texts & Images David Seaman
24 (M-10)
Introduction to Paleography, 800-1500 Consuelo Dutschke
25 (M-80)
Western Manuscripts & Documents, 1500-2000 Nicolas Barker
22-26 June 2009 in Charlottesville, VA
31 (H-65)
Intro to the History, Collection, Description and Use of Maps Alice Hudson
32 (L-30)
Rare Book Cataloging Deborah J. Leslie
33 (L-40)
Visual Materials Cataloging Helena Zinkham
34 (L-60)
Introduction to Archives for Rare Book Librarians Jackie Dooley & Bill Landis
20-24 July 2009 in Charlottesville, VA
41 (H-10)
History of the Book, 200-2000 John Buchtel & Mark Dimunation
42 (I-35)
The Identification of Photo Print Processes James M. Reilly & Ryan Boatright
43 (L-30)
Rare Book Cataloging Deborah J. Leslie
44 (L-90)
Designing Archival Description Systems Daniel Pitti
27-31 July 2009 in Charlottesville, VA
51 (H-15)
The History of the Book in America Michael Winship
52 (H-40)
The Printed Book in the West Since 1800 Eric Holzenberg
53 (I-20)
Book Illustration Processes to 1900 Terry Belanger
54 (L-10)
Introduction to Special Collections Librarianship Susan M. Allen
3-7 August 2009 in Charlottesville, VA
61 (B-10)
Introduction to the History of Bookbinding Jan Storm van Leeuwen
62 (B-90)
Publishers' Bookbindings, 1830-1910 Sue Allen
63 (G-10)
Introduction to the Principles of Bibliographical Description David Gants & Richard Noble
64 (I-10)
Introduction to the History of Illustration Erin Blake
