Week 1: Aug 28

Introduction

Course outline: readings and assignments.

Rare book terminology

How to Operate a Book [video]

Tour of Rare Book Room

Readings:

• Belanger, Terry Definition of Descriptive Bibliography http://www.bibsocamer.org/bibdef.htm

Week 2 Sept 2 (attendance suggested)

Public Lecture on the Influence of Irish monks on medieval Europe entitled: Irish Benedictines: A Problem of (Mis)Communication by Dr. Helmut Flachenecker – Professor of History – Univ. Würzburg, Germany

At Kent Student Center Room 313 3:30-5pm

Week 2: Sept 4

More on Format

Constructing your own formats and signatures

So What are Rare Books & Special Collections?

Responsibility of RB Librarian /Curator

Creating Analytic Bibliographies

The anatomy of a book [video]

Progressive Descriptive Assignment starts

Readings:

 Chappell – Chapter 1

•  Definition of Descriptive Bibliography by Terry Belanger http://www.bibsocamer.org/bibdef.htm

•  “A Survey of Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance Book Production,” by Richard W. Clement Kresge Art Museum. Art into life: collected papers from the Kresge Art Museum medieval symposia / edited by Carol Garrett Fisher and Kathleen L. Scott East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1995 [electronic resource] available through NetLibrary and KentLINK or at http://web.ku.edu/~bookhist/medbook1.html  and http://web.ku.edu/~bookhist/medbook2.html

• An Introduction to Bibliography (Ronald B. McKerrow), pp. 25-52; [e-reserve]

• Gaskell, Philip. ”A nomenclature for Letter-forms of Roman Type.” The Library Fifth Series XXIX No. 1 (March 1974): 42-51. [e-reserve]

OPTIONAL

• “What Use is Bibliography” (Stephen Weismann), in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America v89 (June 1995) 133-148 [e-reserve]

Week 3: Sept 11 Bibliographic Description

Bibliographic Description – different styles and varieties

The anatomy of a book [video]

Anatomy of a Page

Readings:

• “Bibliography and Modern Librarianship,” from Essays in Bibliography, Text, and Editing (Fredson Bowers) pp. 75-93. [e-reserve]

• The Printing Press as Agent of Change (Elizabeth Einstein), pp. 3-42. [e-reserve]

•  “The Importance of Original Editions,” from Books as a Way of Life (Gordon N. Ray), pp. 167-184. [e-reserve]

• “A Brief History of the English Short-Title Catalogue in North America” G. Thomas Tanselle in – The English short-title catalogue: past, present, future / edited by Henry L. Snyder and Michael S. Smith New York : AMS Press, c2003. [e-reserve]

• “Doing Research with the ESTC: A Ph.D. Student's Perspective” Michael S. Smith in The English short-title catalogue: past, present, future / edited by Henry L. Snyder and Michael S. Smith New York : AMS Press, c2003. [e-reserve]

Optional Reading:

• “A New Introduction to Bibliography” (Philip Gaskell), pp. 40-56; 78-141 [reserve]

• Link to Anatomy of a Page - Harry Ransom Rare Books Collection UT Austin http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/html/7.html

Week 4: Sept 18

Bibliographic Description continued

Guest Lecture – Kate Medicus – Rare Book Cataloger - KSU

Cataloging policies

Bibliographic Description

Analyzing Rare Book Catalogue Records 

QUIZ - TERMINOLOGY

Readings:

• “Rare Book Collections: The Need for Interpretation,” (Daniel Traister), pp. 115-119 in Wilson Library Bulletin (Oct 1983) v 58:2

• “A New Edition of The Distribution of Books by Catalogue: Problems and Prospects,” (Giles Mandelbrote), pp. 399-408 in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America v89 (Dec 1995) [e-reserve]

•  “Rare Books and the College Library:  Current Practices in Marrying Undergraduates to Special Collections” (Susan M. Allen), RBML (Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship  ) 13 no. 2 p 110-119 available on the web http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/rbm/backissuesrbmlvol13n/backissuesrbml.cfm

• Krummel, D.W. ”Introduction” and “Scope” in Bibliographies: Their Aims and Methods. NY: Mansell Publishing Ltd, 1984, pages 1-13 and 26-39. [e-reserve]

• Oyens, Felix de Marez “The Toil of Incunable Cataloging” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 81 (1981): 37-57 [e-reserve].

REVIEW

• ACRL Statement on Professional Development (2000) http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/whitepapers/acrlstatement.cfm

Week 5: Sept 25

Reference Tools

Reference Tools

What are Researchers doing in Rare Book / Special Collections Rooms?

 Guest Speaker - Richard Morgan - Morgan Ohio Imprints

Readings:

• McMurtire, Douglas C. “Locating the Printed Source Materials for United States History.” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 31 no. 3 (Dec 1944): 369-406 [available through KentLink]

• “Public Services and Outreach in Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections.” (Daniel Traister) Library Trends 52 no. 1 (Summer 2003): 87-108. [Available through KentLink]

• “The Rare Book Librarian’s Day” (Daniel Traister), Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship  V1 no 2 (fall 1986) pp. 93-106. [e-reserve]

• Enniss, Stephen “The Role of the Artifact in a Facsimile Age” RBM 1 no. 1 (Spring 2000) available at http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/rbm/backissuesvol1no1/backissuesvol.cfm

Report on assigned reading:

• Among the Gently Mad: Perspectives and Strategies for the Book Hunter in the Twenty-first Century Nicholas A. Basbanes NY: Henry Holt and Company 2002 – read Chapter 1 [e-reserve]

• The Scholar Adventurers Richard D. Altick NY: Macmillan Paperbacks, 1950 – read Introduction [e-reserve]

Morgan Library / Ohio Imprints  http://www.morganohiolibrary.com/

Week 6: Oct 2 - More Reference Tools

Practice Reference Questions

Reference tools continued

Public Service & Reference

Reading hand-written documents or "modern" manuscripts

Readings

• “Book Catalogues,” (William P. Barlow, Jr.), in Collectible Books: Some New Paths ed by Jean Peters (R R Bowker 1979) 177-197[e-reserve]

• “Book Auctions,” (John Carter), in Library Trends V9 n4 (April 1961): 471-482 [e-reserve]

• Howsam, Leslie. “Disciplinary Boundaries.” In Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, p3-15 plus notes. [e-reserve]

• Gregory, Dan. ”Devil in the Details.” Fine Books & Collections. 6 No. 4 (No. 34) July/Aug 2005): 27-31.

Report on Assigned Reading:

•  Bibliographers and the Library” (G. Thomas Tanselle) in Literature and Artifacts Charlottesville: The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1998 p24-40 [e-reserve]

• Read the Introduction:  Celebrating Research available at http://www.celebratingresearch.org/

Review:

• “Interlibrary Loan of Rare and Unique Materials, Guidelines for the (June 2004) http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/rareguidelines.cfm C&RL News (October 2004) p544-547

OPTIONAL:

• National Archives of the UK Palaeolography Tutorial http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/default.htm

PRACTICE reading the documents, read the textual materials associated with this part of their website (as assigned)

Week 7: Oct 9

NO CLASS MEETING;

Watch webcasts, write review

Printing as an Agent for Change  & Every Book Its Reader - webcasts

Watch two of the three following webcasts:. They are all on the Library of Congress Website www.loc.gov under webcasts.

  TITLE: Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies After Elizabeth Eisenstein - Presentation of Papers - SPEAKER: various speakers EVENT DATE: 11/02/2007 RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes

   TITLE: Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies After Elizabeth Eisenstein - Panel Discussion  SPEAKER: various speakers EVENT DATE: 11/02/2007 RUNNING TIME: 39 minutes

 TITLE: Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World SPEAKER: Nicholas Basbanes EVENT DATE: 01/31/2006 RUNNING TIME: 56 minutes

Write a review of the two webcasts you watched. Compare and contrast the themes presented, what the presentations taught you about the history of books. Why is it important to study Books as objects and texts? –(3-5 pages) due Oct 16

Agent of Change is on reserve 

Week 8: Oct 16

Medieval Manuscripts & Early Printing

Webcast Review Due

Medieval Manuscript: Art & Function (video)

Promotion and outreach

Faculty as collectors and donors

Outreach and Promotion of Rare Book and Special Collections

Exhibits

Readings:

• Chappell chapters 2 & 3

• “The Design and Printing of Library Exhibition Catalogues,” (Greer Allen), in Rare Books & Manuscript Librarianship v5 n2 (1990): 77-84 [e-reserve]

• Byrd, Robert L. "One Day…It Will Be Otherwise:” Changing the Reputation and the Reality of Special Collections” RBM 2 no. 2 (Fall 2001)  available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/backissuesvol2no/backissuesvol.cfm 

• Nichols. Stephen G "Born Medieval": MSS. in the Digital Scriptorium” Journal of Electronic Publishing 11 No. 1 (Winter 2008) http://journalofelectronicpublishing.org/

OPTIONAL

• “The Department of Manuscripts,”  The Book Collector v45 n1 (Spring 1996): 9-23 [e-reserve]

Review        

• Borrowing and Lending Special Collections Materials for Exhibition, Guidelines for  http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/borrowguide.cfm  or in C&RL News (College & Research Libraries News) (June 2005): available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2005/june05/June05.cfm

Week 9: Oct 23

Incunabula

Incunabula

From Punch to Type (video)

Preservation & Conservation

Guest Speakers - Frank & Andrea Klein - The Bookseller - Akron, OH

Readings:

• Chappell chapter 4

• Adams, Randall G “Librarians as enemies of books” Library Quarterly 7 (1937):317-331 [e-reserve]

•  “A Brief Look at Recent Developments in the Preservation and Conservation of Special Collections” (Jennifer E. Hain):library Trends   52 no. 1 (Summer 2003): 112-17.

•  “Current Security Practice in College and University Special Collections” (Marilyn Wurzburger), pp. in Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship 3 n1 (Spring 1988): 43-57 [e-reserve]

Report on Assigned Reading

• Starmer Mary Ellen, Sara McGough Hyder, and Aimée Leverette “Rare Condition: Preservation Assessment for Rare Book Collections” RBM 6 no. 2 (Fall 2005) http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/backissuesvol6no2/rbmvol6no2.cfm

• Nichols, S.G. and Smith, A “The Evidence at Hand: Report of the task force on the Artifact in Library Collections” Pub 103 Washington, D.C.: CLIR Nov 2001 available at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/reports.html

OPTIONAL

• “Preventing Theft in Academic Libraries and Special Collections” (Susan M. Allen), Library & Archival Security 14 no. 1 (1997): 29-43. [e-reserve]

Week 10: Oct 30

Early printers & books

Early printers & books

Format in the Hand-Press Period (video)

Brittle Books Programs

Readings

• Chappell chapters 5&6
• Duguid, Paul. “Inheritance and loss? A Brief survey of Google Books” First Monday 12 no 8 (2007) available at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/duguid/index.html  and analysis of comments on SHARP (to be distributed in class)
• Kilgour, Frederick G. “Printing 1400-1800” Chapter 8 The Evolution of the Book NY: Oxford University Press, 1998 p81-97 [e-reserve]

Week 11: Nov 6

FACSIMILE ASSIGNMENT DUE

18^th and 19^th century printing

Non-print materials

18th and 19th century printing and Non-Print Materials

Prints & printmaking

Introduction to Printmaking (video)

Moving materials from general to special collections – Why & Why Not

Deaccessioning Materials

Readings:

• Chappell Chapters 7&8

• “The Survival of Books” (David McKitterick), pp. 9-26 in The Book Collector (Spring 1994) v43 n1s [e-reserve]

• The Island of Lost Maps: a True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey NY: Random House 2000 – read introduction and chapter 1. [e-reserve]

• “The Secret Inside Your Library’s Atlases: Reexamine your collection and how to protect in – before someone else does” by Kathleen Weessies American Libraries (October 2003) p49-51 [available through KENTLink]

OPTIONAL

• “Negotiating New Borders for Special Collections” (Cathy Henderson) RBML 14 no. 1 (1999): 9-17 available through ALA website http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/backissuesrbmlvo/backissuesrbml.cfm

WEB RESOURCES

• Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary (has images of printing processes)- http://visual.merriam-webster.com

• articles on printmaking http://www.artelino.com/articles

YouTube videos about printing:

• Relief http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0skLwaFpn0

• Intaglio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNKn4PORGBI

• Lithography: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHw5_1Hopsc

• Woodblock printing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dliF74ojOho

Week 12: Nov 13

Guest Lecturer – Cara Gilgenbach – Head Special Collections – KSU

Collection Development, Rare vs. Special

Donor Relations, Development & Fundraising, deeds of gift, acquisition & appraisal

Inclusive vs. exclusive rare book / special collections

 research time

Readings:

• De Hamel, Christopher ”Tangible Artifacts” RBM 1 no.1 available on line at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/backissuesvol1no1/backissuesvol.cfm

• “All That Glitters: Fund Raising for Special Collections in Academic Libraries” (Samuel Allen Streit), in Rare Books & Manuscript Librarianship 3 no. 1 (Spring 1988): 31-41. [e-reserve]

• “Friends of the Library and Other Benefactors” (Frances J. Brewer), in Library Trends 9 no. 4 (1961): 453-465 [e-reserve]

• Smyth Elaine B. “A Practical Approach to Writing a Collection Development Policy” RBML 14 no. 1 (Fall 1999) available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/backissuesrbmlvo/backissuesrbml.cfm

• “Purposes of Descriptive Bibliography with Some Remarks on Method” from Essays in Bibliography, Text, and Editing (Fredson Bowers) pp. 111-134. [e-reserve]

OPTIONAL:

• Donor Relations for Librarians. By: Juarez, Miguel. Art Documentation: Bulletin of the Art Libraries Society of North America, 24 no 1 (Spring2005): 38-41 [available through KentLink]

REVIEW:

• Code of Ethics for Special Collections Librarians (October 2003) available at http://www.rbms.info/standards/code_of_ethics.shtml

Week 13 Nov 20 – Modern Printers

Modern Printers

Modern Printers and Modern Facsimiles

Modern manuscripts & collections

The Profession and Copyright

Readings:

• Chappell chapters 9 & 10

• Levy, David M.” Contemplating Scholarship in the Digital Age” RBM 6 no. 2 (Fall 2005) available at  http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/backissuesvol6no2/rbmvol6no2.cfm

• Rendell, Kenneth W. “The Future of the Manuscript and Rare Book Business” RBM  2 no. 1 (Spring 2001) available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/backissuesvol2no1/backissuesvol.cfm

• Browar, Lisa ,Cathy Henderson, Michael North, and Tara Wenger Licensing the Use of Special Collections Materials RBM  3 no. 2 (Fall 2002) available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/backissuesvol3no2/rbmvol3no2.cfm

OPTIONAL :

• Sax, Joseph L. “ Not So Public: Access to Collections” RBM 1 no. 2 (Fall 2000) available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/backissuesvol1no/backissuesvol.cfm

• Crews, Kenneth D. Copyright Essentials for Librarians and Educators. Chicago: ALA, 2000 – pages 5-8, 21-33 [e-reserve]

• Townsend, Robert B. “Saving Orphans: Copyright Office Proposes a Solution” News column Perspectives (AHA) March 2006 available at http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2006/0603/0603new3.cfm

Week 14: Nov 27

NO CLASS

Happy Thanksgiving

Week 15: Dec 4

Bibliophilic Societies

Digital World & Special Collections

Early Ohio Imprint Assignment Due

Bibliophilic Societies and Rare Book Organizations

Continuing Education

Digital world & Special Collections

Ethics, Responsibilities & Censorship

Special users

Readings:

• Chappell chapter 11

• Holzenberg, Eric “Second-Hand and Antiquarian Books on the Internet” RBM  2 no.1 (Spring 2001) available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/backissuesvol2no1/backissuesvol.cfm 

•  “Text and Artifacts in the Electronic Era” (G. Thomas Tanselle) 21st C issue 3:2 available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.2/tanselle.html also in Common Knowledge 2.3 (1993) 172-177.

• Baker, Nicholson. “The Charms of Wikipedia.” The New York Review of Books (March 20, 2008) [e-reserve]

• Henschke, Ekkehard. ”Digitising the Hand-Written Bible: The Codex Sinaiticus, its History and Modern Presentation” Libri  57 (2007): 45-51. [e-reserve]

Report on Assigned Reading

• The Infinite Library: Old Worlds and New: Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections in the Twenty-first Century. Essays from the Fleur Cowles Symposium 2000 – Libraries & Culture 37 No. 1 (Feb 2002) [available through Kentlink] 

OPTIONAL

• Kertesz, C. “The Unwanted Gift: When Saying No Thanks Isn’t Enough” American Libraries 32 no 3 (March 2001): 34-37 [available through KentLink]

REVIEW

• ACRL Guidelines: Competencies for Special Collections Professionals  http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/comp4specollect.cfm

Week 16: Dec 11

FINAL

Wrap up

Final