2011 Course Schedule

In 2011, Rare Book School will offer courses at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore (January), the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (June—July), and the Freer-Sackler Galleries in Washington D.C. (October).

For information on this year’s tuition, as well as other related costs, please visit the Program Costs page of this website. For general information about RBS, consult the Frequently Asked Questions page.

To apply, see the Applications Procedures page, where you can download an application form.

10-14 January 2011 in Baltimore, MD
H-25	15th-Century Books in Print and Manuscript	Paul Needham & Will Noel
6-10 June 2011 in Charlottesville, VA
B-90	Publishers’ Bookbindings, 1830-1910	Sue Allen
I-20	Book Illustration Processes to 1900	Terry Belanger
H-10	History of the Book, 200-2000	John Buchtel & Mark Dimunation
L-30	Rare Book Cataloging	Deborah J. Leslie
G-45	Analytical Bibliography	Stephen Tabor
13-17 June 2011 in Charlottesville, VA
I-10	Introduction to the History of Illustration	Erin C. Blake
T-50	Type, Lettering & Calligraphy, 1450-1830	James Mosley
C-90	Provenance: Tracing Owners & Collections	David Pearson
H-90	Teaching the History of the Book	Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
C-85	Law Books: History & Connoisseurship	Mike Widener
4-8 July 2011 in Charlottesville, VA
G-30	Printed Books since 1800: Description & Analysis	Tom Congalton & Katherine Reagan
L-60	Introduction to Archives for Special Collections Librarians	Jackie Dooley & Bill Landis
L-10	Special Collections Librarianship	Alice Schreyer
L-70	XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Texts	David Seaman
G-20	* Printed Books to 1800: Description & Analysis	David Whitesell
18-22 July 2011 in Charlottesville, VA
H-30	The Printed Book in the West to 1800	Martin Antonetti
M-20	Introduction to Western Codicology	Albert Derolez
H-40	The Printed Book in the West Since 1800	Eric Holzenberg
L-65	Digitizing the Historical Record	Bethany Nowviskie & Andrew Stauffer
H-50	The American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820-1940	Michael Winship
25-29 July 2011 in Charlottesville, VA
H-70	The History of the Book in America, c. 1700-1830	James N. Green
L-95	Born-Digital Materials: Theory & Practice	Matthew Kirschenbaum & Naomi Nelson
G-10	Introduction to the Principles of Bibliographical Description	Richard Noble & David Whitesell
B-10	Introduction to the History of Bookbinding	Jan Storm van Leeuwen
M-70	English Paleography, 1500-1750	Heather Wolfe
3-7 October 2011 in Washington, DC
I-90	The Art of the Book in Edo and Meiji Japan, 1615-1912	Ellis Tinios