Previous Courses

2022

Dates	City	Location	Course Title	Instructor
7/25-7/29	New York	Booklyn	An Assembly on Using Artists’ Books to Decolonize Special Collections Libraries	Marshall Weber
		Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, Cooper Hewitt Library	Teaching in Special Collections: Creating Pedagogy & Space for Critical, Effective, and Inclusive Primary Source Literacy Instruction	Michaela Ullmann

		CUNY Graduate Center	Critical Librarianship in Praxis	Emily Drabinski
8/1-8/5	Online		CalRBS Curated Special Topics: Artists and Archives	CalRBS Curated Course: Sarah Russin Michalle Gould Barbara Calderón Katherine Agyemaa Agard Amanda Martin Katz
			Born Digital/Digital Collections	Trevor Owens
			Curating the Digital Afterlife: Analog Histories and Digital Futures	Tonia Sutherland
			Archives and Climate Change	Eira Tansey
8/8-8/12	San Francisco	University of San Francisco	Descriptive Bibliography*	Gerald Cloud
8/8-8/12	San Francisco	Letterform Archive	History of Typography in the West: An Overview from Gutenberg to Adobe	Paul Shaw
8/15-8/19	Los Angeles	UCLA	Queer and Feminist Archival Practices	Rebecka Sheffield
		UCLA	Islamic Manuscript and Print Culture: from the Middle East to South Asia	Gwendolyn Collaço
		Online	Special Issues in Art Librarianship: Developing Critical/Decolonial Praxis	CalRBS Curated Course: Simone Fujita Kit Messick Lylliam Posadas Hailey Loman Dan McCleary
		UCLA	History of the Renaissance Book*	Devin Fitzgerald & Sonja Drimmer
		UCLA	English Paleography	Vanessa Wilkie
		UCLA	The Critical Praxis of Special Collections Librarianship	Mario Ramirez

2021

Week	Dates	Course	Instructor	Location	Number of Days/Hours	Tution
Week 1	August 2-6	Digital Humanities for the History of the Book	Catherine DeRose	Online	5 days: 20 synchronous hours, 15-18 asynchronous hours	$1,200
	August 2-6	Critical Approaches, Zines, and Maker Spaces [NEW]	Sean Pessin	Online	5 days: 20 synchronous hours, 15-18 asynchronous hours	$1,200
	August 2-6	Critical Librarianship in Praxis [NEW]	Emily Drabinski	Online	5 days: 20 synchronous hours, 15-18 asynchronous hours	$1,200
	August 2-6	Better Teaching with Rare Materials: Critical Approaches	Michaela Ullmann	Online	5 days: 20 synchronous hours, 15-18 asynchronous hours	$1,200
	August 2-6	Feminist Bibliography [NEW]	Sarah Werner	Online	5 days: 20 synchronous hours, 15-18 asynchronous hours	$1,200
Week 2	August 9-13	Libraries and Social Justice: Through an Indigenous Lens [NEW]	Sandy Littletree	Online	5 days: 20 synchronous hours, 15-18 asynchronous hours	$1,200
	August 9-13	Illustrated Scientific Books in Early Modern Europe	Daniela Bleichmar	Online	5 days: 20 synchronous hours, 15-18 asynchronous hours	$1,200
	August 9-13	History, Identification, and Preservation of Photographic Materials	Gawain Weaver	Online	5 days: 20 synchronous hours, 15-18 asynchronous hours	$1,200
	August 9-13	Developing and Administering Ethnic and Cultural Heritage Collections	Tamar Dougherty	Online	5 days: 20 synchronous hours, 15-18 asynchronous hours	$1,200
	August 9-13	CalRBS Director’s Intensive: Book History and Librarianship through Post- and De-Colonial Lenses [NEW]	Robert D. Montoya	Online	5 days: 20 synchronous hours, 15-18 asynchronous hours	$600
Week 3	August 16-20	Global Histories of the Book: Asia/Europe [NEW]	Devin Fitzgerald	Online	5 days: 20 synchronous hours, 15-18 asynchronous hours	$600
	August 16-20	Exhibiting Rare Books & Ephemera: Physically & Digitally	Marianne Lamonaca	Online	5 days: 20 synchronous hours, 15-18 asynchronous hours	$1,200
	August 16-18	Data Ethics and Activism in Practice [NEW]	Stacy Wood	Online	2 days: 8 synchronous hours, 2-7 asynchronous hours	$475
	August 16-19	Principles of Transcription in Rare Book Cataloging	Randal Brandt	Online	4 days: 15 synchronous hours, 12-15 asynchronous hours	$950

2020

While we wished to offer all 14 courses we originally scheduled and meet in-person Summer of 2020; due to Covid-19 restrictions, we are pleased to announce that we successfully offered four courses in August, all remotely, on Zoom, without sacrificing quality.

Date	Course	Instructor	Location
Week 1 August 3 – 7	English Paleography	Vanessa Wilkie	Virtual
Week 2 August 10 – 14	Better Teaching with Rare Materials: Critical Approaches	Robert Montoya & Michaela Ullmann	Virtual
Week 2 August 10 – 14	History of Typography	Paul Shaw	Virtual
Week 3 August 17 – 21	Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts	Melissa Conway	Virtual

2019

Date	Course	Instructor	Location
Week 1 August 5 – 9 UCLA Campus GSE&IS	Descriptive Bibliography	Gerald Cloud	UCLA & Clark Library
	Illustrated Scientific Books in Early Modern Europe [NEW]	Daniela Bleichmar	UCLA
	Better Teaching with Rare Materials	Robert Montoya & Michaela Ullmann	UCLA
	History, Identification, and Preservation of Motion Picture/Video Materials	Snowden Becker	UCLA
Week 2 August 12 – 16 UCLA Campus GSE&IS	Artists’ Books: Collection Development & Assessment	Brad Freeman	UCLA
	Developing and Administering Ethnic & Cultural Heritage Resources	Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty	UCLA
	Scientific & Secular Manuscripts	Melissa Conway & Cynthia White	UCLA
	Social Media for Rare Books [Cancelled]	Snowden Becker	UCLA
	History of the Book, 200-1820	Susan M. Allen & Daniel J. Slive	UCLA
Week 3 August 19 – 23 San Francisco Berkeley	Books of the Far West – with an emphasis on California	Gary Kurutz	California Historical Society (CHS) San Francisco
	History, Identification, and Preservation of Photographic Materials	Gawain Weaver	Bancroft Library UC Berkeley
	Introduction to Black Print Culture [NEW]	Gabrielle Dudley	Bancroft Library UC Berkeley
	Rare Book Cataloging	Randal S. Brandt	Bancroft Library UC Berkeley

2018

Date	Course	Instructor	Location
July 30- August 3 UCLA Campus GSE&IS	Texts, Maps, and Networks: Introduction to Digital Humanities (NEW)	Catherine DeRose	UCLA
	Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts	Melissa Conway	UCLA
	Donors & Libraries (By Invitation Only)	Susan M. Allen & William P. Barlow, Jr.	UCLA
	Exhibiting Rare Books & Ephemera: Physically & Digitally	Marianne Lamonaca	UCLA
	History, Identification, and Preservation of Motion Picture/Video Materials	Snowden Becker	UCLA
	History of the African American Book, 1773-1973	Randall K. Burkett & Gabrielle Dudley	UCLA
August 6-10 UCLA Campus GSE&IS	Better Teaching with Rare Materials	Michaela Ullmann & Robert Montoya	UCLA
	English Paleography (NEW)	Vanessa Wilkie	UCLA
	History of the Book: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	Jeffrey D. Groves	UCLA
	Introduction to Archives for Historians and Librarians	Daniel Lewis	UCLA
	Library & Archives Preservation in the Digital Age	Mark S. Roosa	UCLA
	Special Collections: History, Theory, and Practice	Carrie Marsh & Laura Stalker	UCLA
August 13-17 San Francisco Bay Area	Vertical Reading: The Contemporary Book in its Historical Context	Peter Koch	Bancroft LibraryUC Berkeley
	History of the Book in East Asia	Deborah Rudolph	East Asia Starr Library UC Berkeley
	History of Typography	Paul Shaw	The Book Club of California
	Rare Book Cataloging	Randal Brandt	Bancroft Library UC Berkeley

2017

Dates	Course	Instructor(s)	Location
July 31-August 4, 2017	Artists’ Books: Collection Development	Johanna Drucker	UCLA – GSE&IS
July 31-August 4, 2017	Descriptive Bibliography	Gerald Cloud	UCLA – GSE&IS
July 31-August 4, 2017	Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts	Melissa Conway	UCLA – GSE&IS
July 31-August 4, 2017	History of the Book, 200 AD – 1820 AD	Susan M. Allen	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 7-11, 2017	Developing & Administering African-American Resources	Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 7-11, 2017	History of the Book in Hispanic America, 16th – 19th Centuries	Daniel J. Slive & David Szewczyk	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 7-11, 2017	The Renaissance Book, 1400-1650	Craig Kallendorf	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 7-11, 2017	Secular & Scientific Manuscripts (NEW)	Melissa Conway & Cynthia White	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 14-18, 2017	Rare Book Cataloging	Randal Brandt	UC, Berkeley – Bancroft Library
August 14-18, 2017	History of Maps	Julie Sweetkind Singer	UC, Berkeley – Bancroft Library
August 14-18, 2017	History, Identification, & Preservation of Photographic Materials	Gawain Weaver	UC, Berkeley – Bancroft Library
August 14-18, 2017	Printing at the Margins: A History of Women Printers	Kathleen Walkup	The Book Club of California

2016

Dates	Course	Instructor(s)	Location
August 1-5, 2016	Special Collections Librarianship	Carrie Marsh & Laura Stalker	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 1-5, 2016	History of the Book: The Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries	Jeffrey D. Groves	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 1-5, 2016	Exhibiting Rare Books & Ephemera	Marianne Lamonaca	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 1-5, 2016	History, Identification & Preservation of Motion Picture Materials	Snowden Becker	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 8-12, 2016	Introduction to Archives for Historians & Librarians	Daniel Lewis	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 8-12, 2016	Donors & Libraries	Susan M. Allen & William P. Barlow, Jr.	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 8-12, 2016	Better Teaching with Rare Materials (NEW)	Robert Montoya & Michaela Ullmann	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 8-12, 2016	History of the African American Book, 1773-1973 (NEW)	Randall K. Burkett & Gabrielle Dudley	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 8-12, 2016	History of Typography	Paul Shaw	UCLA – GSE&IS
Aug. 15-19, 2016	Rare Book Cataloging	Randal Brandt	UC, Berkeley – Bancroft Library
Aug. 15-19, 2016	History of the Book in the West	Gary Kurutz	SF – California Historical Society
Aug. 15-19, 2016	History of the Book in East Asia	Deborah Rudolph	UC, Berkeley –Starr East Asian Library
Aug. 15-19, 2016	The Book as a Work of Art: The Contemporary Book in Its Historical Context (NEW)	Peter Koch	UC, Berkeley – Bancroft Library
Aug. 15-19, 2016	Scholars’ Studio: (NEW)	Kathleen Walkup	Oakland – Mills College

2015

Dates	Course	Instructor(s)	Location
November 2-6 2015	Books of the Far West, with an Emphasis on California	Gary Kurutz	California Historical Society
November 2-6 2015	History, Identification, and Preservation of Photographic Materials	Gawain Weaver	UC Berkeley–Bancroft Library
November 2-6 2015	History of Cartography/Maps	Julie Sweetkind Singer	UC Berkeley–Bancroft Library
November 2-6 2015	Descriptive Bibliography	Gerald Cloud	The Book Club of California
August 3-7 2015	Born Digital/Digital Collections	Stephen Davison	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 3-7 2015	Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts	Melissa Conway	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 3-7 2015	Developing & Administering Collections of African American Resources	Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty and Randall K. Burkett	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 3-7 2015	History of the Book, 200-1820	Susan M. Allen	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 10-14 2015	History of the Book in Hispanic America, 16th-19th Centuries	Daniel J. Slive & David Szewczyk	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 10-14 2015	Artists’ Books: Collection Development and Assessment	Johanna Drucker	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 10-14 2015	Library and Archives Preservation in the Digital Age	Mark S. Roosa	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 10-14 2015	The Renaissance Book, 1400-1650	Craig Kallendorf	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 10-14 2015	Exhibiting Rare Books and Ephemera	Marianne Lamonaca	UCLA – GSE&IS

2014

Dates	Course	Instructor(s)	Location
November 3-7 2014	Books of the Far West, with an Emphasis on California	Gary Kurutz	California Historical Society
August 4-8 2014	History of the Book: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	Jeffrey D. Groves	UCLA – GSE&IS
November 3-7 2014	History of the Book in East Asia	Peter Zhou & Deborah Rudolph	UC Berkeley-Starr East Asian Library
November 3-7 2014	History of Typography	Paul Shaw	UC Berkeley–Bancroft Library
August 4-8 2014	Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts	Justine Andrews	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 4-8 2014	Rare Book Cataloging	Randal Brandt	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 4-8 2014	Book Collecting for Private and Institutional Collections	Bruce Whiteman	UCLA – Clark Library
August 11-15 2014	Descriptive Bibliography	Bruce Whiteman	UCLA – Clark Library
August 11-15 2014	Introduction to Archives for Historians and Librarians	Daniel Lewis	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 11-15 2014	Donors and Libraries	Susan M. Allen & William P. Barlow, Jr.	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 11-15 2014	Special Collections Librarianship: History, Theory, and Practice	Laura Stalker & Carrie Marsh	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 11-15 2014	History, Identification, and Preservation of Motion Picture/Video Materials	Snowden Becker	UCLA – GSE&IS

2013

Dates	Course	Instructor(s)	Location
November 4-8 2013	Books of the Far West, with an Emphasis on California	Gary Kurutz	California Historical Society
November 4-8 2013	History, Identification, and Preservation of Photographic Materials	Gawain Weaver	UC Berkeley–Bancroft Library
November 4-8 2013	History of Cartography/Maps	Julie Sweetkind Singer	UC Berkeley–Bancroft Library
August 12-16 2013	Artists’ Books: Collection Development and Assessment	Johanna Drucker	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 12-16 2013	Descriptive Bibliography	Gerald Cloud	UCLA – Clark Library
August 12-16 2013	History of the Book, 200-1820	Susan M. Allen	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 12-16 2013	Preservation Stewardship of Library Collections	Mark S. Roosa	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 12-16 2013	History of the Book in Hispanic America, 16th-19th Centuries	Daniel J. Slive & David Szewczyk	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 5-9 2013	Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts	Melissa Conway & Lisa Fagin Davis	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 5-9 2013	Rare Books for Scholars and Archivists	Bruce Whiteman	UCLA – Clark Library
August 5-9 2013	Born Digital/Digital Collections	Stephen Davison	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 5-9 2013	The Renaissance Book, 1400-1650	Craig Kallendorf	UCLA – GSE&IS

2012

Dates	Course	Instructor(s)	Location
November 5-9 2012	Donors and Libraries	Susan M. Allen & William P. Barlow, Jr.	The Book Club of California
November 5-9 2012	Rare Book Cataloging	Randal Brandt	UC Berkeley – Bancroft Library
July 30- August 3 2012	Book Collecting for Private and Institutional Collections	Bruce Whiteman	UCLA – Clark Library
July 30- August 3 2012	History, Identification, and Preservation of Photographic Materials	Gawain Weaver	UCLA – GSE&IS
July 30- August 3 2012	History of the Book: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	Jeffrey D. Groves	UCLA – GSE&IS
July 30- August 3 2012	Intellectual Property and Other Legal Issues for Rare Books and Manuscripts	Maureen Whalen	UCLA – GSE&IS
July 30- August 3 2012	Special Collections Librarianship: History, Theory, and Practice	Laura Stalker & Carrie Marsh	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 6-10 2012	History of the Book in Hispanic America, 16th-19th Centuries	Daniel J. Slive & David Szewczyk	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 6-10 2012	Old Books for Young Children	Ruth B. Bottigheimer	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 6-10 2012	Technology of Electronic Records	Jacob Nadal	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 6-10 2012	“What’s Past is Prologue”: An Introduction to Archives for Historians and Librarians	Daniel Lewis	UCLA – GSE&IS

2011

Dates	Course	Instructor(s)	Location
August 1-5 2011	Preservation Stewardship of Library Collections	Mark S. Roosa	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 1-5 2011	Descriptive Bibliography	Bruce Whiteman	UCLA – Clark Library
August 1-5 2011	History of the Book from the Old Babylonian to 1989	Ivy Trent	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 8-12 2011	Books of the Far West, with an Emphasis on California	Gary F. Kurutz	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 8-12 2011	Artists’ Books: Collection Development and Assessment	Johanna Drucker	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 8-12 2011	History of the Book, 200-1820	Susan M. Allen	UCLA – GSE&IS
October 17-21 2011	Rare Book Cataloging	Randal S. Brandt	UC Berkeley – Bancroft Library
October 17-21 2011	Donors and Libraries	Susan M. Allen & William P. Barlow, Jr.	Berkeley and San Francisco

2010

Dates	Course	Instructor(s)	Location
August 9-13 2010	Preservation Stewardship of Library Collections	Mark S. Roosa	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 9-13 2010	History of the Book, 200-1820	Susan M. Allen	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 9-13 2010	Books of the Far West, with an Emphasis on California	Gary F. Kurutz	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 9-13 2010	Artists’ Books: Collection Development & Assessment	Johanna Drucker	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 2-6 2010	Descriptive Bibliography	Bruce Whiteman	UCLA – Clark Library
August 2-6 2010	Book Illustration Processes to 1900	Terry Belanger	UCLA – GSE&IS

2009

Dates	Course	Instructor(s)	Location
August 10-14 2009	Preservation Stewardship of Library Collections	Mark S. Roosa	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 10-14 2009	Descriptive Bibliography	Bruce Whiteman	UCLA – Clark Library
August 10-14 2009	Books of the Far West, with an Emphasis on California	Gary F. Kurutz	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 3-7 2009	Special Collections Librarianship: Operations & Administration	Lynda Claasen & David Zeidberg	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 3-7 2009	Rare Book Cataloging	Randal S. Brandt	UCLA – GSE&IS

2008

Dates	Course	Instructor(s)	Location
August 11-15 2008	Preservation Stewardship of Library Collections	Mark S. Roosa	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 11-15 2008	Books of the Far West, with an Emphasis on California	Gary F. Kurutz	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 11-15 2008	Book Illustration Processes to 1900	Terry Belanger	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 11-15 2008	Book Collecting: History & Techniques	Bruce Whiteman	UCLA – Clark Library
August 4-8 2008	Special Collections Librarianship: Operations & Administration	Lynda Claasen & David Zeidberg	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 4-8 2008	History of the Book in Hispanic America, 16th-19th Centuries	Daniel J. Slive & David Szewczyk	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 4-8 2008	Donors & Libraries	Susan M. Allen & William P. Barlow, Jr	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 4-8 2008	Descriptive Bibliography	Carl Berkhout	UCLA – GSE&IS

2007

Dates	Course	Instructor(s)	Location
August 6-10 2007	Rare Book Cataloging	Deborah J. Leslie	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 6-10 2007	Preservation Stewardship of Library Collections	Mark S. Roosa	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 6-10 2007	Books of the Far West, with an Emphasis on California	Gary F. Kurutz	UCLA – GSE&IS
July 30 – August 3 2007	The History of the Book in Latin America, 16th-19th Centuries	Daniel J. Slive & David Szewczyk	UCLA – GSE&IS
July 30 – August 3 2007	Introduction to Special Collections Librarianship	Susan M. Allen & Lynda Claassen	UCLA – GSE&IS
July 30 – August 3 2007	Descriptive Bibliography	Carl Berkout	UCLA – GSE&IS

2006

Dates	Course	Instructor(s)	Location
August 7-11 2006	Rare Book Cataloging	Deborah J. Leslie	UCLA – GSE&IS
August 7-11 2006	Books of the Far West, with an Emphasis on California	Gary F. Kurutz	UCLA – GSE&IS
July 31 – August 4 2006	Introduction to Special Collections Librarianship	Susan M. Allen & Lynda Claassen	UCLA – GSE&IS
July 31 – August 4 2006	Descriptive Bibliography	Carl Berkhout	UCLA – GSE&IS
July 31 – August 4 2006	Book Illustration Processes to 1900	Terry Belanger	UCLA – GSE&IS