RBS Announces Summer 2025 Course Schedule
Rare Book School is pleased to share its summer 2025 course schedule! The list of more than 40 in-person and online courses can be found at rarebookschool.org/schedule.
This summer’s course schedule includes classes at two new partner institutions: the University of Michigan and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library (also RBS’s first international courses).
The courses running for the first time include:
- Transmission of the Bible from the Beginnings to 1500 (H-195), taught by Peter Toth at Oxford University
- Researching Medieval Manuscripts: From Cataloging to Cultural History (M-60), taught by David Rundle at Oxford University
- Print for Children (H-200), taught by Andrea Immel & Jill Shefrin at Princeton University
- Digital Codicology & Book History (L-160), taught by Dot Porter at the University of Pennsylvania
Returning course Paper as Bibliographical Evidence (G-75), taught by Cathleen A. Baker, will run at the University of Michigan, a new RBS venue.
Rare Book School’s summer 2025 in-person courses in Charlottesville will be offered in the University of Virginia’s recently renovated Edgar Shannon Library. The second-floor suite boasts state-of-the-art classrooms, ample exhibition and event spaces, and spacious storage areas for the collections and printing equipment.
Other in-person courses will run at:
- the Free Library of Philadelphia
- the Newberry Library (Chicago)
- the Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA)
- Oxford University (Oxford, UK)
- Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
- the University of Chicago
- the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
- the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
- the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
- Yale University (New Haven, CT)
The online classes meet synchronously over five days and are offered in 22-hour and 12-hour formats.
Course applications will open in January, and the first-round deadline will be 17 February.
Please consider joining the RBS email list, and be among the first to know about our courses, events, and other special announcements. If you have any questions about courses or the application process, please contact rbsprograms@virginia.edu. RBS hopes to welcome you to a course soon.