About the California Rare Book School

The California Rare Book School (CALRBS) is a continuing education program dedicated to providing the requisite knowledge and skills for professionals working in all aspects of the rare book community, and for students interested in entering the field. CALRBS offers weeklong courses covering a broad range of topics.

Students at the California Rare Book School benefit from an expert faculty and the wealth of special collections of rare books, manuscripts and archival materials in the Los Angeles area.

Founded in 2005, the California Rare Book School is a project of the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSE&IS) at UCLA. CALRBS is supported by an informal consortium of many of the academic and research libraries and antiquarian booksellers of Southern California.

CALRBS operates with the support of the Ahmanson Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Book Club of California and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & Center for 17th-and-18th Century Studies.