Registration Window for 2024 Rare Book School Summer Classes (January - February 19, 2024)

Rare Book School (RBS) is pleased to announce its summer 2024 course schedule!  The RBS list of more than 30 in-person and online courses can be found at rarebookschool.org/schedule.   The registration window will open in January and there is a first round deadline of February 19, 2024 to apply for classes which will be held beginning in June, 2024.

New and updated courses for 2024 include:

• The Book in Ming China: History  & Analysis (H-145), taught by Martin Heijdra, He Bian & Soren Edgren
• A History of the Indigenous Book in the Americas (H-150), taught by Will Hansen & Robert Warrior
• The Printing Press in Spanish  America, 1492–1833 (H-175v), taught by Albert A. Palacios
• An Environmental History of the  Book (H-190), taught by Eric Slauter
• The Identification of  Photographic & Digital Print Processes (I-35), taught by Ryan Boatright
• Medieval Manuscript Fragments: Cataloging & Discoverability (L-145), taught by Lisa Fagin Davis
• Modern Special Collections  Cataloging (L-150), taught by Brenna Bychowski
• Institutional Book Arts Collections: Evaluating & Describing (L-155v), taught by Robert Riter
• The History of Typography (T-10), taught by Jill Gage & Sasha Tochilovsky

RBS will be adding a few more courses, so please be sure to check the course schedule webpage again soon.

Rare Book School’s summer 2024 in-person courses in Charlottesville will be offered in the University of Virginia’s recently renovated main library. Our second-floor suite boasts state-of-the-art classrooms, ample exhibition and event spaces, and spacious storage areas for our collections and printing equipment.

Other in-person courses will run at:

·         the Free Library of Philadelphia

·         the Grolier Club (New York City)

·         the New York Public Library (New York City)

·         the Newberry Library (Chicago)

·         the Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA)

·         Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

·         the University of Pennsylvania Libraries (Philadelphia)

·         Yale University (New Haven, CT)

Course applications will open in January, and the first-round deadline will be 19 February.

 Summer 2024 

• 2 – 7 June in Charlottesville, VA Course IDCourse TitleFaculty
• G-20 Printed Books to 1800: Description & AnalysisDavid R. Whitesell
• G-55 Scholarly Editing: Principles & PracticeDavid Vander Meulen
• G-75 Paper as Bibliographical EvidenceCathleen A. Baker
• G-80 Identifying and Understanding Twentieth-Century Duplicating TechnologiesBrian Cassidy
• I-35 The Identification of Photographic & Digital Print Processes Ryan Boatright

• 2 – 7 June in Philadelphia, PA Course IDCourse TitleFaculty
• H-105 The Bible and Histories of ReadingLynne Farrington Peter Stallybrass
• I-85 Japanese Prints and Illustrated Books in ContextJulie Nelson Davis
• M-85 Introduction to Islamicate ManuscriptsMarianna Shreve Simpson Kelly Tuttle

• 9 – 14 June in Charlottesville, VA Course IDCourse TitleFaculty
• H-85 The History of the Book in ChinaSoren Edgren
• H-165 Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities TeachingMichael F. Suarez, S.J.
• I-20 Book Illustration Processes to 1900Terry Belanger
• L-150 Modern Special Collections CatalogingBrenna Bychowski

• 9 – 14 June in New Haven, CT Course IDCourse TitleFaculty
• C-85 Law Books: History & ConnoisseurshipKathryn James Mike Widener

• 10 – 14 June  ONLINE ONLY Course IDCourse TitleFaculty
• M-105v Using Digitized Manuscripts Dot Porter
• L-155v Institutional Book Arts Collections: Evaluating & Describing Robert Riter

• 1 – 5 July  ONLINE ONLY Course IDCourse TitleFaculty
• I-45v The Photographic Book since 1843Richard Ovenden

• 7 – 12 July in Charlottesville, VA Course IDCourse TitleFaculty
• B-75 American Publishers’ Bookbindings, 1800–1900Todd Pattison
• H-30 The Printed Book in the West to 1800Martin Antonetti
• I-40 The Illustrated Scientific Book to 1800Caroline Duroselle-Melish Roger Gaskell
• L-50 Special Collections Leadership SeminarNaomi Nelson
• T-60 The History of 19th- and 20th-Century Typography & PrintingJohn Kristensen Katherine M. Ruffin

• 14 – 19 July in New York City, NY Course IDCourse TitleFaculty
• H-10 Histories of the Book, 200–2000Michael Inman Charlotte Priddle
• H-155 The History of Artists’ Books since 1950Tony White

• 15 – 19 July in Upperville, VA Course IDCourse TitleFaculty
• I-50 Six Hundred Years of Botanical IllustrationPeter Crane Roger Gaskell

• 21 – 26 July in Charlottesville, VA Course IDCourse TitleFaculty
• B-65 English Bookbindings, 1450–1850: Identification & InterpretationDavid Pearson
• H-65 Material Foundations of Map History, 1450–1900Matthew Edney
• I-10 The History of Printed Book Illustration in the WestErin C. Blake
• L-30 Rare Book CatalogingDeborah J. Leslie
• L-145 Medieval Manuscript Fragments: Cataloging & DiscoverabilityLisa Fagin Davis

• 21 – 26 July in Princeton, NJ Course IDCourse TitleFaculty
• G-85 Why Black Bibliography MattersJennifer Garcon Kinohi Nishikawa
• H-25 Fifteenth-Century Books in Print & ManuscriptPaul NeedhamWill Noel Eric White
• H-145 The Book in Ming China: History & Analysis Martin HeijdraHe Bian Soren Edgren

• 22 – 26 July  ONLINE ONLY Course IDCourse TitleFaculty
• L-25v Reference Sources for Researching Rare BooksJoel Silver
• H-175v The Printing Press in Spanish America: 1492–1833

• 28 July – 2 August in Charlottesville, VA Course IDCourse TitleFaculty
• B-10I ntroduction to the History of BookbindingKaren Limper-Herz
• G-10 Introduction to the Principles of Bibliographical DescriptionDavid R. Whitesell
• H-15 The History of the Book in America: A Survey from Colonial to ModernScott E. Casper Jeffrey D. Groves
• M-20 Seminar in Western CodicologyM. Michèle Mulchahey

• 4 – 9 August in Chicago, IL Course IDCourse TitleFaculty
• H-150 A History of the Indigenous Book in the AmericasWill Hansen Robert Warrior
• H-190 An Environmental History of the Book
• T-10 The History of Typography

• 16 – 30 October in ONLINE ONLY (FALL 2023) Course IDCourse TitleFaculty
• L-140v Building a BookLab (Online)Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Kari Kraus

Note:  These events are listed by IOBA as a courtesy to book buyers and sellers.  Every effort is made to post accurate information, but the most reliable information will be found at the link to the promoters website:  (https://rarebookschool.org/).

Please consider joining the RBS email list, and be among the first to know about their courses, events, and other special announcements. If you have any questions about courses or the application process, please contact them at rbsprograms@virginia.edu.