Nicole Alvarado, Book & Paper Conservator at the UCLA Library Preservation & Conservation Department reviews CalRBS 2024 programs in “Summer Learning: California Rare Book School,” published in Number 276 of the Guild of Book Workers’ Newsletter. Focusing on the course Islamic Manuscript and Print Culture: from the Middle East to South Asia taught by Gwendolyn Collaço, Alvarado observes of the experience:

I now have a greater respect for paleographers and subject experts, who dedicate their studies on interpreting centuries-old manuscripts (14)