-------- Original Message -------- 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/ - 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 -- 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