L-165. Literary Manuscripts
The course will address a broad range of subjects, providing a historical perspective on the literary manuscript and turning to the status and uses of literary archives today. The course …
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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 …
L-145. Medieval Manuscript Fragments: Cataloging & Discoverability
Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 20–25 July 2025 Format: in person, University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA Fee: $1,495 The study of medieval manuscript fragments has developed into its …
L-150. Modern Special Collections Cataloging
While rare book and special collections libraries are associated with antiquarian, hand-press books, these collections increasingly include twentieth- and twenty-first-century materials that are not “rare” in the traditional sense of …
L-135. Reference Sources for Researching Printed Western Americana
Course Length: 12 hours Course Week: 24–25 June 2023 Format: in person, Indiana University in Bloomington, IN Fee: $800 The American West has long been a popular field for book …
C-75v. Introduction to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Length: 6 hours Format: Online Designed for librarians, archivists, curators, and others with an interest in special collections and exhibitions focused on the global Black experience, this course provides an …
I-45v. The Photographic Book since 1843
The nature, form, and impact of the book changed dramatically with the introduction of photography, altering the way books would be made, would appear, and would help transform the communication …
L-125. Scientific Analysis of the Book
Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 4–9 June 2023 Format: in person, Yale University in New Haven, CT Fee: $1,395 There have been tremendous advances in science as it relates …
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-50. Special Collections Leadership Seminar
“It was tremendously helpful to be among a community of peers and to have so many generous visiting speakers to learn from, ask questions of, and bounce ideas off. I …
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