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Rare Book School Mourns the Passing of William T. Buice III

It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of William T. Buice III on 10 November 2025. A lawyer and book collector, Bill was an outspoken advocate for Rare Book School (RBS) as well as for the book collecting community and the wider nonprofit world. 

As the second Chair of the RBS Board of Directors (2008–2014), Bill helped build the Board in ways that propelled its culture of philanthropy and fiduciary oversight. Among his many accomplishments as Board Chair was overseeing the successful transition of RBS’s directorship from Terry Belanger to Michael F. Suarez, S.J., in 2009. […]

George Washington’s Mount Vernon Seeking Special Collections Processing Archivist

George Washington’s Mount Vernon is seeking to hire a Special Collections Processing Archivist. The position reports to the Chief Librarian and works closely with the Special Collections Librarian to ensure proper care, documentation, management, and access to special collections holdings. This position is primarily responsible for tracking and managing data entry, electronic and physical documentation for receiving special collections manuscripts and books, relating to accessioning, loans (internal and external), and deaccessioning.  The Archivist processes, describes, and houses Special Collections manuscripts and archival collections.

S/he will coordinate with the Technical Services Librarian, who is responsible for cataloging rare books, […]

SoFCB Junior Fellows Gain Hands-On Experience at NYC Field School

Founded in 2017, the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) is a Rare Book School program that seeks to advance the study of texts, images, and artifacts as material objects through capacious, interdisciplinary scholarship. Each year, the Society, which now numbers more than 100 members, selects ten early-career scholars to join the program as Junior Fellows through an open application process that considers their work with textual artifacts. Junior Fellows come from a variety of fields ranging from literature, medieval studies, history, and art history to musicology, anthropology, religious studies, classics, and more. […]

CFP: 21st Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop

The Call for Papers for the 21st Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop, to take place 30–31 January 2026, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been extended to 14 November 2025 […]. The workshop is organized by Charles Kuper (Classics) and R. D. Perry (English) and is hosted by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

This year’s workshop explores the issues of “destruction and preservation.” As anyone working in the premodern period knows all too well, culture is fragile. It is beset by forces that would rather destroy it, sometimes intentionally, as when authorities make certain things verboten or seek to suppress them,