Summer 2016 Schedule Change

Please note an important schedule change for the 10–15 July Rare Book School session in Charlottesville: course B-75, American Publishers’ Bookbindings, 1800–1900, taught by Todd Pattison, will now be offered in place of course B-10, Introduction to the History of Bookbinding. The session of course B-10 scheduled for 24–29 July will be held as anticipated.

Applications for American Publishers’ Bookbindings, 1800–1900 are now being accepted via our online application system, myRBS. […]

Lectures by Tom Mole & Michael Suarez on 17 March

On Thursday, 17 March, you are invited to join Rare Book School for two lectures:

At noon, Professor Tom Mole, Reader in English Literature and Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh, will speak on “Scattered Odes in Shattered Books: Romantic Poems in Victorian Anthologies.” This talk will be held in Rare Book School’s Tanenbaum Seminar Room (118 Alderman Library). More information.

At 4 p.m., Rare Book School Director Michael F. Suarez, S.J. will deliver a lecture as part of the Virginia Festival of the Book: “Literacy in America: Crisis and Hope.” […]

Rare Book School Faculty in the News

We are delighted to share some exciting news about three members of the Rare Book School faculty:

Consuelo Dutschke was awarded the Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies by the Medieval Academy of America’s Committee on Centers and Regional Associations. The award recognizes Dutschke’s “leadership in the creation and development of the project known as Digital Scriptorium (DS), which she began in 1997 and which she has ‘patiently and tenaciously’ developed, organized and promoted to the present.”

Fenella France has been appointed a Distinguished Presidential Fellow by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). […]