RBS News
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RBS Faculty Member James Reilly Receives Preservation Award
RBS faculty member James Reilly, director of the Image Permanence Institute (IPI) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), has received the 2014 Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award, given annually by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS). The award recognizes the contribution of a professional preservation specialist who has been active in the field of preservation of library materials. James received the award on 28 June, at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the 2014 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Las Vegas.
See the ALA press release for more information on the award. […]
Posted July 2, 2014 by sysop -
RBS Announces 2014 Summer Lecture Series Schedule
The staff at Rare Book School are thrilled to announce the exciting lineup for this summer’s lecture series. The schedule is packed with talks by specialists who will speak on a wide array of subjects, from braille to zines and engraving to word processing.
The lectures are free and open to the public. All talks will take place on Monday and Wednesday evenings at 5:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library (unless otherwise noted) on the lecture schedule. […]
Posted June 4, 2014 by sysop -
Now Accepting Applications for October Courses
Applications are now being accepted via myRBS for three Rare Book School courses being offered in October:
- Advanced Rare Book Cataloging Workshop (L-35), taught by Deborah J. Leslie. 20–24 October at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
- Book Illustration Processes to 1900 (I-20), taught by Terry Belanger. 27–31 October at Rare Book School in Charlottesville.
- Introduction to Illuminated Manuscripts (M-50), taught by Roger Wieck. 27–31 October at the Morgan Library &
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RBS-Mellon Fellowships Awarded
RBS is pleased to announce that the selection process for the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography is now complete: a second cohort of 20 RBS-Mellon Fellows has been chosen. The aim of the fellowship program is to reinvigorate bibliographical studies within the humanities by introducing doctoral candidates, postdocs, and junior faculty to specialized skills, methods, and professional networks for conducting advanced research with material texts. Read more about the 2014–16 fellows. […]
Posted May 6, 2014 by sysop -
Announcing the 2014–15 RBS-UVA Fellows
The 2014–15 cohort of RBS-UVA Fellows has been selected. The new fellows are:
- Nora Benedict – Ph.D. student, Department of Spanish
- Mary Draper – Ph.D. student, Department of History
- Ben Lee – Ph.D. student, Department of English
- Ethan Reed – Ph.D. student, Department of English
- Christina Kilby Robinson – Ph.D. student, Department of Religious Studies
- Allison Wolf – CLAS ’15, Department of English
- Gretchen York – Ph.D. student, Department of EnglishEach of the fellows will attend an RBS course this summer,