Message-Id: <200210011856.g91IhDwv025957@sitelicense.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:42:11 -0400 From: Rare Book School <mailto:fac-fbap@VIRGINIA.EDU> Subject: Image/EAD/Cataloging/Desbib courses at Virginia To: mailto:IMAGELIB@listserv.arizona.edu
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RARE BOOK SCHOOL is pleased to announce its Winter and Spring 2003
Sessions, a collection of five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning
rare books, manuscripts, the history of books and printing, and special
collections to be held at the University of Virginia.
FOR AN APPLICATION FORM and electronic copies of the complete brochure and
Rare Book School expanded course descriptions, providing additional details
about the courses offered and other information about Rare Book School,
visit our Web site at
Subscribers to the list may find the following Rare Book School courses to
be of particular interest:
24. ELECTRONIC TEXTS & IMAGES. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 3-7). A practical
exploration of the research, preservation, editing, and pedagogical uses of
electronic texts and images in the humanities. The course will center
around the creation of a set of archival-quality etexts and digital images,
for which we shall also create an Encoded Archival Description guide.
Topics include: SGML tagging and conversion; using the Text Encoding
Initiative Guidelines; the form and implications of XML; publishing on the
World Wide Web; and the management and use of online texts. Some experience
with HTML is a prerequisite for admission to the course. Instructor: David
Seaman
DAVID SEAMAN is the founding director of the internationally renowned
Electronic Text Center and online archive at the University of Virginia. He
lectures and writes frequently on SGML, the Internet, and the creation and
use of electronic texts in the humanities. He has taught this course at
Rare Book School many times since 1994.
14. IMPLEMENTING ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION (MONDAY-FRIDAY, JANUARY
6-10). Encoded Archival Description (EAD) provides standardized
machine-readable access to primary resource materials. This course is aimed
at archivists, librarians, and museum personnel who would like an
introduction to EAD that includes an extensive supervised hands-on
component. Students will learn SGML encoding techniques in part using
examples selected from among their own institutions' finding aids. Topics:
the context out of which EAD emerged; introduction to the use of SGML
authoring tools and browsers; the conversion of existing finding aids to
EAD. Instructor: Daniel Pitti
DANIEL PITTI became Project Director at the University of Virginia's
Institute for Advanced Technology in 1997, before which he was Librarian
for Advanced Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was
the Coordinator of the Encoded Archival Description initiative. He has
taught this course since 1997, usually twice annually.
13. RARE BOOK CATALOGING (MONDAY-FRIDAY, JANUARY 6-10). Aimed at catalog
librarians who find that their present duties include (or shortly will
include) the cataloging of rare books or special collections materials.
Attention will be given primarily to cataloging books from the hand-press
period, with some discussion given to c19 and c20 books in a special
collections context. Topics include: comparison of rare book and general
cataloging; application of codes and standards (especially DCRB); uses of
special files; problems in transcription, collation and physical
description; and setting cataloging policy within an institutional context.
Instructor: Deborah J. Leslie.
DEBORAH J. LESLIE is Head of Cataloging at the Folger Shakespeare Library,
before which she held positions as rare book cataloger at Yale University
and at the Library Company of Philadelphia. She is the chair of the RBMS
Bibliographic Standards Committee. Various instructors taught this Rare
Book School course 14 times between 1983 and 1997; DJL has taught it at
least once annually since 1998.
23. ADVANCED DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY (MONDAY-FRIDAY, JANUARY 6-10). A
continuation and extension of Introduction to Descriptive Bibliography
(G-10), this course is based on the intensive examination of a
representative range of books from the c16-c19. The goal of the course is
to deepen students' familiarity with the physical composition of books; to
gain further experience in the use of Fredson Bowers' Principles of
Bibliographical Description; and to consider critically some of the uses of
Bowers' method (and its limitations) in the production of catalogs,
bibliographies, critical editions, and histories of books and reading.
Instructor: Richard Noble.
RICHARD NOBLE is Rare Books Cataloguer at the John Hay Library, Brown
University. He is co-author (with Joan Crane) of Guy Davenport: A
Descriptive Bibliography 1947-1995 (1996), and co-editor of The Dramatic
Works of George Lillo (1993). He has taught this Rare Book School course
twice since 1999.
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