California Rare Book School is a continuing education program dedicated to providing the requisite knowledge and skills for the rare book and library community.
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Joined March 2010
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The 2024 slate of @CalRBS courses is LIVE! There are some real bangers to apply for, and I’m not just saying that because I’m teaching one of them ;) calrbs.org/2024-courses/
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I’m not teaching this summer, but the courses listed look 🔥 and from my experience last year your classmates will be amazing, the field trips & collections stunning, & LA is nice too! Go!
We are pleased to announce that CalRBS is now accepting applications for the Summer 2024 season. Our listings of in-person and online courses can be found on our website: calrbs.org/2024-courses/?utm…
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@CalRBS kickoff welcome event at the @SILibraries: “Turning Pages: The New Feminist Age Meets the World of Rare Book Dealers and Fine Press Printing!”
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@calrbs at the @SILibraries has begun! Excited for what the week has in store. #library #libraries #smithsonian #rarebooks #bibliography
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There are few spots remaining in my @CalRBS summer course History of the Book! July 31-Aug 4th in LA. Applications are open on a rolling basis! Let’s do hands on learning with old books and material texts!
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Calling all librarians—especially public! The @CalRBS Radical Librarian Institute is fully funded, including a flight to LA, housing on the UCLA campus, as well as $10,000 stipend to run a program at your local branch or site. First round deadline is March 4. Apply now!
Applications for the Radical Librarianship Institute are now open. Deadline for first round review: March 3, 2023. Thanks to the @MellonFdn, participation is fully covered for invited participants (this includes, airfare, lodging, and many meals!). calrbs.org/courses/radical-l…
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“At a time when libraries and librarians are facing immense pressure and scrutiny, it is affirming and deeply meaningful to have the support of community champions... willing to invest in our mission” –@ALALibrary President Lessa Pelayo-Lozada. infodocket.com/2023/01/24/am…
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Do I know anybody in Singapore who might be able to obtain a book for me from a company that does not ship internationally? Any help appreciated!
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Sneak peek to presentation tomorrow at CKS on the. colonial library of Cambodia @ckscambodia register here: khmerstudies.org/between-pub…
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Happy new semester! If you or your grad students are starting to think about about summer opportunities, I'm excited to be teaching "History of the Book 200-1820" at @CalRBS in Los Angeles/UCLA this summer, July 31-August 4th! Check it out & apply here:
calrbs.org/program/courses/h…
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Really looking forward to teaching "History of the Book, 200-1820" at @CalRBS in at UCLA this summer! So many rich resources in the LA area for working with material texts! Information and application at the link here: calrbs.org/program/courses/h…
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@czeltsman interviewing @tttkay about “Shifting Geographies of the Book”: fpba.com/parenthesis/selecte…. Note that @CalRBS is going to Mexico City soon. No big deal, just @CalRBS going global and tackling what it means to do global librarianship and bibliography.
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Mellon is celebrating #NAHM with a trip to the #library. Join us this Thursday, 10/27, to envision the full potential of #libraries as spaces to convene, connect & engage in civic life. RSVP: americaatthelibrary.splashth…
@ALALibrary @LAPublicLibrary
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How well do libraries reach the public they’re intended to serve?
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#NAHM @robdmontoya @uclaseis @UCLA
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We're seeking new members of the BibSite Editorial Board and metadata is a major part of the project.
bibsocamer.org/news/voluntee…
If you can't make a volunteer commitment, think about reaching out to the editors!
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Stephen Coles (@stewf) demonstrates an unusual printer’s reference binder: Type Faces of Monotype, Linotype, and Miscellaneous Display Faces, The Cuneo Press of New England, Cambridge, ca. 1955.
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Job alert!
Black Studies Librarian, working with the Black Bibliography Project at Rutgers (blackbibliog.org)
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/17…
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Did you miss last week's panel, Materialities of Tibetan Buddhist Books?
Catch up now on YouTube! Thanks, once again, to @BookSeminars for sponsoring this fantastic panel.
youtu.be/BIQmfvO-pHM
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A Peek in the Stacks: Historic Avocado Trees in Los Feliz
Fruit for thought: 8 avocado trees were designated Los Angeles Historical-Cultural Monument #343 located in the heart of Los Feliz. Source: #CSUN Library Los Feliz Improvement Association Records.
library.csun.edu/SCA/Peek-in…
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Coming up this fall @RutgersBook : Corinna Zeltsman, "Mexico's Workers of Thought: Rethinking Press Freedom & Political Culture through Printing." Response by Marcy Schwartz, 12 Oct 4PM @rutgerscca Room 6051 & (1/2)
ALT Image of purple hand; Corinna Zeltsman is assistant professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of Ink under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (University of California Press, 2021), which received the Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History from the Latin American Studies Association. Trained as a letterpress printer, she is a senior fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School.