Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 5, No. 0083. Wednesday, 2 February 1994.
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Date: Tuesday, 1 Feb 1994 23:39:52 -0500
Subject: [Books at Virginia]
Subscribers to SHAKSPER may be particularly interested in one or
more of the following 5-day non-credit courses offered this
coming summer at BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: RARE BOOK SCHOOL 1994 (RBS):
21 HISTORY OF THE PRINTED BOOK. The production and impact of
the printed book in the West since the 15th century. The
transition from MS to printed book; technical and stylistic
aspects of book production (paper, ink, type, presswork,
illustration, binding); the professions of authorship,
printing, and publishing; changing patterns of book
distribution; the book as an economic, social, and cultural
force. Aimed at those who have had little or no previous
formal exposure to this field. Instructors: Alice Schreyer
and Peter M. VanWingen. (18-22 July)
22 EUROPEAN DECORATIVE BOOKBINDING. An historical survey of
decorative bookbinding in England and on the European
Continent, concentrating on the period 1500-1800, but with
examples drawn from the late 7th century to the late 20th
century. Topics include: the emergence and development of
various decorative techniques and styles; readership and
collecting; the history of bookbinding in a wider historical
context; the pitfalls and possibilities of binding research.
Enrollment in this course is limited to those who have taken
Nicholas Pickwoad's RBS course (see below, no. 43).
Instructor: Mirjam Foot. (18-22 July)
36 ELECTRONIC FORMATS IN A RARE BOOKS ENVIRONMENT. Taking
advantage of Alderman Library's computer instruction
facilities, this course will provide practical training in
the conversion of printed records to electronic formats. The
course's emphasis will be on the character-based SGML texts,
but it will also discuss image formats and strategies for
making resources available on the Internet. Instructor: John
Price-Wilkin. (25-29 July)
43 EUROPEAN BOOKBINDING, 1500-1800. How bookbinding in the
post- medieval period developed to meet the demands placed
on it by the growth of printing: techniques and materials
employed to meet these demands; the development of temporary
bindings (eg pamphlets and publishers' bindings); the
emergence of structures usually associated with volume
production in the 19th century; the development of
decoration; the dating of undecorated bindings; the
identification of national and local binding styles.
Instructor: Nicholas Pickwoad. (1-5 August)
46 INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC TEXTS. An introductory
exploration of the range of research, preservation, and
pedagogical tasks that can be performed with electronic
texts. Topics include: finding and evaluating commercial and
other e-texts; the creation of e-texts through OCR scanning
and other methods; introduction to SGML tagging;
introduction to text analysis tools; the management and use
of online texts and related network resources. The course
assumes familiarity with e-mail and basic computer skills
such as word-processing, but no previous experience with
electronic texts. Instructor: David Seaman. (1-5 August)
52 TYPE, LETTERING, AND CALLIGRAPHY, 1450-1830. The
development of the major formal and informal book hands, the
dominant printing types of each period, and their
interrelationship. Topics include: the Gothic hands;
humanistic script; the Renaissance inscriptional capital;
Garamond and the spread of the Aldine Roman; calligraphy
from the chancery italic to the English round hand; the
neoclassical book and its typography; and early commercial
typography. Instructor: James Mosley. (8-12 August)
54 INTRODUCTION TO DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Introduction to
the physical examination and description of books,
especially of the period 1550-1875. The course is designed
both for those with little or no prior exposure to this
subject and for those with some general knowledge of the
field who wish to be presented with a systematic discussion
of the elements of physical description (format, collation,
signings, pagination, paper, type, illustrations and other
inserts, and binding). A major part of the course will
consist of small, closely-supervised laboratory sessions in
which students will gain practice in determining format and
collation. Instructors: Terry Belanger and David Ferris. (8-
12 August)
A total of 28 5-day courses will be offered on subjects ranging
from the identification of illustration processes to collecting
travel literature.
TERRY BELANGER founded RBS in 1983 at Columbia University,
where he had various positions in the School of Library
Service. Since 1992, he has been University Professor and
Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of
Virginia.
DAVID FERRIS is Curator of Rare Books at the Harvard
University Law School Library, where one of his interests is
the descriptive bibliography of early printed books. He has
been connected with RBS since 1986 and its Associate
Director since 1990.
MIRJAM FOOT is Director of Collections and Preservation in
The British Library. She is the author of many books and
articles on the history of bookbinding, including STUDIES IN
THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING (1993) and (with Howard Nixon)
THE HISTORY OF DECORATED BOOKBINDING in England (1992).
JAMES MOSLEY is Librarian of the St Bride Printing Library
in London, the largest library of its kind in the English-
speaking world. He has lectured widely in the United States
on typographical subjects. He was Founding Editor of the
JOURNAL OF THE PRINTING HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
NICHOLAS PICKWOAD recently became Conservator at the Harvard
University Library. He was formerly Adviser for Book
Conservation to the National Trust in the United Kingdom.
This will be the 14th time he has taught this celebrated
course in RBS.
JOHN PRICE-WILKIN is Systems Librarian for Information
Services at the University of Virginia, before which he was
Data Services Librarian at the University of Michigan, where
he pioneered the provision of campus-wide electronic access
to literary and linguistic texts.
ALICE SCHREYER is Curator of Special Collections at the
University of Chicago. She is the author of THE HISTORY OF
BOOKS: A GUIDE TO SELECTED RESOURCES IN THE LIBRARY OF
CONGRESS (1987). From 1988-93 she was Editor of RARE BOOKS
AND MANUSCRIPTS LIBRARIANSHIP, a journal published by the
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and
she is a past chair of the ACRL's Rare Books & Manuscripts
Section.
DAVID SEAMAN is Coordinator of the Electronic Text Center at
the Alderman Library, University of Virginia. He is the co-
compiler (with John Kidd) of THE ELECTRONIC JOYCE. He
lectures frequently on the use of electronic texts in the
humanities.
PETER M. VanWINGEN is Specialist for the Book Arts in the
Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of
Congress, where he has been concerned with many aspects of
the history of the book. He is a past chair of the Rare
Books & Manuscripts Section of ACRL and former President of
the American Printing History Association.
The tuition for each RBS course is $525. Low-cost, air-
conditioned dormitory housing will be offered on the Grounds of
the University, and nearby hotel accommodation is readily
available. Students are encouraged to take advantage of RBS's
housing to arrive a few days before their course, or stay a few
days later, in order to give themselves (and their families) a
better chance to explore the Charlottesville area, which includes
many sites of historic interest as well as various vacation
attractions.
For a copy of the RBS 1994 Expanded Course Descriptions sheet
(providing further details about the courses offered this year)
and an application form, write, fax, email, or telephone Rare
Book School, 114 Alderman Library, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA 22903-2498: fax 804/924-8824; e-mail
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