California Rare Book School

California Rare Book School (CalRBS)

The California Rare Book School is pleased to announce its 2015 line
up of courses this summer in Los Angeles and continuing in fall in
Northern California.  Three of these courses focus on preservation
and conservation issues.  They are Library and Archives Preservation
in the Digital Age; Born Digital/Digital Collections; and History,
Identification, and Preservation of Photographic Materials.

Here's What's New for 2015:
Fourteen, 1-Week Intensive Courses Offered

    Week 1
    Courses at UCLA
    August 3-7, 2015

        Born Digital/Digital Collections

        Forgery in Manuscript and Printed Book (NEW)

        Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

        Developing and Administering African American Resources
        (new)

        History of the Book, 200-1820

    Week 2
    Courses at UCLA
    August 10-14, 2015

        The Renaissance Book, 1400-1650

        History of the Book in Hispanic America, 16th - 19th
        Centuries

        Artists' Books: Collection Development and Assessment

        Library and Archives Preservation in the Digital Age

        Exhibiting Rare Books and Ephemera (NEW)

    Week 3
    Courses at UC Berkeley or in San Francisco
    November 2-6, 2015

        Books of the Far West, with an Emphasis on California
        CHS

        Descriptive Bibliography
        The Book Club of California

        History, Identification, and Preservation of Photographic
        Materials
        Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

        History of Cartography/Maps
        Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

Scholarships are made possible by grants and gifts from the
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), William Reese
Company, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and
Publishing (SHARP), the Southern California Chapter of the ABAA, the
Zamorano Club, and the CalRBS Annual Fund.

Scholarship application deadlines:

    June 14, 2015 (for August courses)
    September 13, 2015 (for November courses)

To contact CalRBS see

    <URL:http://www.calrbs.org>

For more details and to find:

    Course descriptions
    Faculty bios
    Application forms for courses and scholarships
    Staff contact info

Mark S. Roosa
Dean of Libraries
Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu CA 90263-1392
310-506-4252
Fax: 310-506-7225


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