L-160. Digital Codicology & Book History
Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 1–6 June 2025 Format: in person, University of Pennsylvania Libraries in Philadelphia, PA Fee: $1,495 This course explores the interplay between books as physical …
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L-155v. Institutional Book Arts Collections: Evaluating & Describing
Topics will include collection development and selection, organization, description, and the development of access policies and procedures. Emphasis will be placed on how book art objects can be evaluated as …
M-105v. Using Digitized Manuscripts
Course Length: 22 hours Course Week: 10–14 June 2024 Format: online only Fee: $1,000 Over the past 20 years, the number of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that have been digitized …
L-120. Introduction to Audiovisual Archives Management
Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 20–25 July 2025 Format: in person, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Fee: $1,495 Media archives present a unique and invaluable world of …
L-115. Community Archives and Digital Cultural Memory
Jazz saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings on Afrofuturism: “I’ve always been fascinated with the word. I think I first heard about it from John Akomfrah’s documentary “The Last Angel of History.” I …
L-110. Integrating Born-Digital Materials: Archival Standards & Approaches
Archives have always been format agnostic and nothing has changed with the introduction of born-digital materials (born-digital materials are those that began life on a computer, rather than as digitized …
L-95. Born-Digital Materials in Special Collections
Special collections libraries have always held a wide-range of format types, each with its own affordances. This course will consider the more distinctive issues and considerations related to collecting and …
H-110. The Art & Science of Cartography, 200–1550
The foundations of modern cartography begin with the researches of the Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy in the second century and the re-discovery of his texts in the late Middle Ages …
M-95. The Medieval Manuscript in the Twenty-First Century
“A thrilling introduction to both codicology and digital humanities for someone with any humanistic background.” —2017 student This course is designed to introduce students of both the digital humanities and …
L-70. XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Texts
A practical exploration of the creation, preservation, and use of electronic texts and their associated images in the humanities, with a special focus on special collections materials. This course is …
L-100. Digital Approaches to Bibliography & Book History
Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 9–14 July 2023 Format: in person, University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA Fee: $1,395 This course will explore the possibilities that digital tools and …
L-65. Digitizing the Cultural Record
This course treats the scholarly, theoretical, institutional, and practical issues involved in the digitization of our various and shared cultural heritage—an activity we will consider at many levels of scale …
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