Colorado Book Seminar (CABS) - Minnesota (July 14 - 20, 2024)
Sun, Jul 14
|Northfield, MN USA
A full week of intensive, hands-on instruction, tailored to the needs of booksellers, collectors, and librarians.
Time & Location
Jul 14, 2024, 4:00 PM – Jul 20, 2024, 5:00 PM
Northfield, MN USA, 1520 St Olaf Ave, Northfield, MN 55057, USA
About the Event
Seminar History
The Out-of-Print and Antiquarian Book Market seminar began in 1977 as the result of a collaboration between Dean Margaret Goggin of the Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management at the University of Denver and Jacob L. Chernofsky, editor and publisher of AB Bookmans’ Weekly.
Goggin, who had a keen interest in both the worlds of librarianship and antiquarian bookselling, had been dismayed at how little librarians and book dealers knew of each other’s methods, procedures and problems. She conceived of the seminar as a meeting ground and education tool for both. ...
Demand for the seminar proved to be great. Because of space limitations and the desire to maintain a high faculty to student ratio, enrollment was limited to 100 persons and there was usually a waiting list. The seminar continued to be held at the University of Denver and was universally known as “the Denver…