Rare Book School sponsors a number of free, open-to-the-public evening lectures each year at the University of Virginia on a wide variety of bibliographical topics; please browse our list of past lectures for a sampling. RBS lectures are usually held Mondays and Wednesdays while RBS is in session, at 5:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. A reception follows in 118 Alderman Library.

• Nov
  1

  2017
  You Load 15 Tons and What Do You Get?

  Lecturer: Terry Belanger - University Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia; Founding Director of Rare Book School
  Byrd/Morris Room, UVA Special Collections • 5:30 p.m.
  
• Jul
  31

  2017
  James Rivington: Transatlantic Bookseller, Entrepreneur, and Bankrupt

  Lecturer: Christine Ferdinand - Emeritus Fellow Librarian, Magdalen College, Oxford
  UVA Special Collections • 5:30 p.m.
  
• Jul
  25

  2017
  Gatherings of Pages: Saving Federal Scientific Data

  Lecturer: Laurie Allen - Assistant Director for Digital Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
  Class of 1978 Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, University of Pennsylvania • 6:00 p.m.
  

Rare Book School sponsors and co-sponsors a range of programming at various times throughout the year, including activities at book fairs, symposia at UVA and other locations, and more. These include events organized by the RBS-Mellon Fellows in Critical Bibliography at their home institutions.

• Apr 7
  /
  Apr 8
  

  
  2018
  RBS at the Virginia Antiquarian Book Fair

  Presented by: Virginia Antiquarian Booksellers Association
  Virginia Museum of History and Culture (Virginia Historical Society), Richmond • 1:00–6:00 p.m. Friday; 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Saturday
  
• Feb
  7

  2018
  RBS Open House & RBS-UVA Fellowship Information Reception

  Presented by: Rare Book School
  118 Alderman Library • 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
  
• Dec 11
  /
  Dec 12
  

  
  2017
  RBS Seminar: Digital Sustainability for Cultural Collections

  Presented by: Nancy Y. McGovern & Kari R. Smith
  MIT Libraries (Building 14, Room 132) • 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. daily
  

Since 1992, Rare Book School has been responsible for a rotating series of exhibitions in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, many curated by UVA undergraduate and graduate students. The books and other materials shown in these exhibitions are drawn both from the RBS collections and from the UVA Library, supplemented by occasional loans by other institutions and individuals.

• Jun 13
  /
  Apr 30
  

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  2018
  An Archipelago of Readers: Forming a Literary Culture in Digital Media

  Curated by: Katherine McNamara, with the assistance of Will Norton
  Dome Room, UVA Rotunda
• Sep 15
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  May 10
  

  
  2017
  Shaping Eyre: Charlotte Brontë’s Classic Novel in 200 Objects

  Curated by: Barbara Heritage
  Dome Room, UVA Rotunda
• Mar 13
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  Feb 28
  

  
  2014
  Books That Take Us Lands Away: Tourism and Print Culture in the Nineteenth Century

  Curated by: Theresa Goodman
  Stettinius Gallery, Alderman Library