Course Descriptions

Current Courses 2012

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

• Donors and Libraries

• Rare Book Cataloging

Previous Courses 2012

• Book Collecting for Private and Institutional Collections

• History, Identification, and Preservation of Photographic Materials

• History of the Book: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

• Intellectual Property and Other Legal Issues for Rare Books and Manuscripts

• Special Collections

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

• Old Books for Young Children

• Technology of Electronic Records

• “What’s Past is Prologue”: An Introduction to Archives for Historians and Librarians

Previous Courses 2011

• Descriptive Bibliography

• Donors & Libraries

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

• Book Illustration Processes to 1900

• Rare Book Cataloging

• Special Collections Librarianship: Operations & Administration

• Preservation Stewardship of Library Collections

• History of the Book, 200-1820

• Artists’ Books: Collection Development & Assessment

• History of the Children’s Book from the Old Babylonian to 1989

• Management Issues in Special Collections

Previous Courses 2010

• Book Collecting: History & Techniques

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

• Introduction to Special Collections Librarianship