RBS Announces Summer 2019 Course Schedule
The spring and summer 2019 Rare Book School course schedule is available! Along with 24 courses in Charlottesville, RBS will also offer courses at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania; the Free Library of Philadelphia; the Lilly Library at Indiana University Bloomington; the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University; the Grolier Club; the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Harvard-Yenching Library at Harvard University.
New courses for 2019 include:
- The History of the Book in China since 1368 (H-145), taught by Soren Edgren (course H-85 will now cover the period to 1368)
- The History of Books and Printing in Korea (H-160), taught by Beth McKillop
- Japanese Prints and Illustrated Books in Context (I-85), taught by Julie Nelson Davis
- Community Archives and Digital Cultural Memory (L-115), taught by Bethany Nowviskie
Applications for spring and summer 2019 courses will be accepted beginning in early January.