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Subject:        [Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, Summer
2009--Intro to the History, Collection, Description, & Use of Maps]
Date:   Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:50:03 -0500
From:   Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>



The following announcement may be of interest to the readers of this list.

Rare Book School (RBS) is pleased to announce its 2009 course
offerings.  Each year, RBS offers about 25 five-day, non-credit
courses on topics concerning book history, old and rare books,
manuscripts, and special collections.  Classes are held annually at
the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA); at the Grolier Club
and at the Morgan Library & Museum (NYC); at The Johns Hopkins
University and the Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD); and at the
Freer/Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian (Washington DC).

In 2009, these five-day, intensive course offerings include:

(H-65) Intro to the History, Collection, Description, & Use of Maps,
taught by Alice Hudson, 22-26 June in Charlottesville, VA

Course description:
This course provides a general overview of maps as social, cultural,
intellectual tools and their place in the library and the academy. It
is intended for rare book curators, generalists, conservators, map
librarians, and antiquarian dealers and collectors who seek to focus
on the particular nature of the cartographic materials that impact
their work or interests. A mix of presentations, including Powerpoint
slides, group exercises, hands on work with maps, atlases and globes,
will familiarize students with the map as artifact. This course will
be a prerequisite for future RBS map courses in the cataloging of rare
maps, preservation of prints and maps, and courses devoted to Ptolemy
/ Sanson / Blaeu, &c.

This course will also include a short presentation on map cataloging
and cartobibliography by Joel Kovarsky of The Prime Meridian: Antique
Maps & Books (Crozet,VA).

Alice C. Hudson is Chief of The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map
Division of The Humanities and Social Sciences Library of The New York
Public Library. She has taught map librarianship at the Pratt School
of Information & Library Science, where she is an adjunct professor,
since 2002.

As always, admission to these and other RBS courses is by competitive
application; class size is limited to 12 students. Tuition for each
five-day course is $895.

For more information, including a link to the preliminary reading
list, see the online course description here:
http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/history/h65/
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Ryan L. Roth
Program Director, Rare Book School
114 Alderman Library, P.O. Box 400103, University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4103
http://www.rarebookschool.org, +1 (434) 924-8851




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Joel Kovarsky
The Prime Meridian
1839 Clay Dr., Crozet, VA 22932 USA
Phone: 434-823-5696
Email: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.theprimemeridian.com