Five-Day Rare Book Cataloging and EAD Courses Rare Book School 07 Oct 2003 18:14 UTC
[Cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication.] RARE BOOK SCHOOL (RBS) is pleased to announce its Winter and Early Spring Sessions 2004, 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 the RBS Expanded Course Descriptions, providing additional details about the courses offered and other information about RBS, visit our Web site at: http://www.rarebookschool.org Subscribers to the list may find the following Rare Book School courses to be of particular interest: 23 (L-30). RARE BOOK CATALOGING (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 8-12 MARCH). 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. 24 (L-80). IMPLEMENTING ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 8-12 MARCH). Encoded Archival Description (EAD) provides standardized machine-readable descriptive 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 XML encoding techniques in part using examples selected from among their own institutions' finding aids. Other topics covered include: the context out of which EAD emerged; introduction to the use of XML authoring tools; the conversion of existing finding aids; publishing finding aids; funding sources for EAD projects; and integration of EAD into existing archival processing. 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.