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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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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