We're accepting applications for our fall online course, A Bibliographical Introduction to the Hand-Press Period. The course, taught by @wynkenhimself.bsky.social, runs Sundays, 10/19-12/14. Application deadline is Fri 10/10. More at rarebookschool.org/fall-online-course-thinking-bibliographically

Our fiscal year ends on September 30. Help us reach our goal toward raising funds for RBS scholarships by making a gift of any amount by the end of the month!

Taking an hour between unpicking edition primacy in the catalog (thanks, ref sources + fingerprinting) to watch @chrisvvarren.bsky.social's Malkin lecture @rarebookschool.bsky.social on computational bibliography. V recommended! 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks : youtu.be/ElvNacFyoWQ?...

RBS is happy to announce that we are now accepting applications for: 𝗥𝗕𝗦-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 (apply by 𝟮 𝗡𝗼𝘃.) 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠. 𝗖. 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 (apply by 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰.) Details: rarebookschool.org/2025-scholarships-fellowships/

Give the gift of Rare Book School! The testimonies of our students speak powerfully to the ongoing vitality of the work we do. Your gift to the RBS annual fund before 30 September is the single best way to support future generations of RBS students. Donate today at rarebookschool.org/donate

Confession: I was never able to fold my own printer’s hat at Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social – not for lack of opportunity, but for catastrophic lack of paper engineering skills 😭 I don’t think anyone’s ever folded one as wrong as I did back in 2017

I had fun getting artsy for @rarebookschool.bsky.social's Famous & Forgotten: The Game of Authors exhibition opening today!

Our Famous & Forgotten: The Game of Authors exhibition opening is underway! Drop by Rare Book School today (9/12) until 6:30 p.m. ET for film screenings, games, crafts, and RBS popcorn! Free & open to the public. Details at rarebookschool.org/all-programs/events/famous-forgotten-exhibition-opening

RBS Associate Curator Zoe Langer puts some finishing touches on our new 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 & 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴 exhibition. Join us Friday, 9/12, from 12 to 6:30 p.m. to celebrate the exhibition's official opening! Details: rarebookschool.org/all-programs/events/famous-forgotten-exhibition-opening

Tomorrow! Free & open to the public!

RBS is happy to announce that we are now accepting applications for: 𝗥𝗕𝗦-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 (apply by 𝟮 𝗡𝗼𝘃.) 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠. 𝗖. 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 (apply by 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰.) Details: rarebookschool.org/2025-scholarships-fellowships/

RBS Associate Curator Zoe Langer puts some finishing touches on our new 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 & 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴 exhibition. Join us Friday, 9/12, from 12 to 6:30 p.m. to celebrate the exhibition's official opening! Details: rarebookschool.org/all-programs/events/famous-forgotten-exhibition-opening

Coming up this Friday, join @rarebookschool.bsky.social on the 2nd floor of Shannon for the exhibition celebration! Come for the entire event or drop in as your schedule allows.

Join RBS this Friday (9/12) to celebrate our 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 & 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴 exhibition with gallery tours, film screenings, craft workshops, a reception & mocktail hour, and more! Details at rarebookschool.org/all-programs/events/famous-forgotten-exhibition-opening @uvalibrary.bsky.social

As part of @rarebookschool.bsky.social's 9/12 free public event around their historical author game exhibit (how did folks in the past think about their literary celebrities?), they're offering some humanities crafts: 2 "make your own authors card deck" sessions & bookish coloring:

"I found myself enchanted by that old book school magic." Jessica Hovey, Collections Manager at the Osher Map Library, reflects on her experience in the RBS course "Paper as Bibliographic Evidence" at @umich.edu this June: oshermaps.org/blog/adventu...

Join RBS on 12 Sept. to celebrate the opening of our 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 & 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴 exhibition! The show includes printed books, ephemera, and curiosities drawn from RBS’s acclaimed teaching collection. Details at rarebookschool.org/all-programs/exhibitions/famous-forgotten/ #Cville #UVA

Join RBS on 12 Sept. to celebrate our 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 & 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴 exhibition! Events include gallery tours, film screenings, craft workshops, reception & mocktail hour, & more! Details & schedule at rarebookschool.org/all-programs/events/famous-forgotten-exhibition-opening #Cville #UVA

Join RBS on 12 Sept. to celebrate the opening of our 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 & 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴 exhibition! The show includes printed books, ephemera, and curiosities drawn from RBS’s acclaimed teaching collection. Details at rarebookschool.org/all-programs/exhibitions/famous-forgotten/ #Cville #UVA

Did you miss our summer talks or wish you could share them with someone else? You’re in luck! Recordings of our 2025 Summer Lecture Series are now online! Video recordings are under the “Summer Lectures” playlist at youtube.com/rarebookschool Listen to the audio at soundcloud.com/rarebookschool

Did you miss our summer talks or wish you could share them with someone else? You’re in luck! Recordings of our 2025 Summer Lecture Series are now online! Video recordings are under the “Summer Lectures” playlist at youtube.com/rarebookschool Listen to the audio at soundcloud.com/rarebookschool

Thanks to the RBS Board of Directors, all gifts made to the Annual Fund before September 30 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $150,000. The Annual Fund is essential to our work, funding scholarships and fellowships to support RBS students. You can help now. Visit rarebookschool.org/donate.

This June, Trina Parks-Matthews was in residence at RBS as our 2025 William Reese Fellow. Parks-Matthews, who works at @umich.edu, participated in Cathy Baker’s course, “Paper as Bibliographical Evidence” and spent a week at RBS conserving our 1798 multi-volume Dobson 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘺𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘱æ𝘥𝘪𝘢.🧵

@rarebookschool.bsky.social -- especially 600 Years of Botanical Illustration, held at Oak Spring Garden -- comes pretty close rarebookschool.org/courses/illu...

Got initial ink on my @rarebookschool.bsky.social "mess is lore" apron this week but somehow failed to look like I'd bathed in Cheetos? 1 print took multiple passes w/dayglo orange so my other little print projects those days=orange too; most of Penland's dayglo inks were unused when I opened them??

Thanks to the RBS Board of Directors, all gifts made to the Annual Fund before September 30 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $150,000. The Annual Fund is essential to our work, funding scholarships and fellowships to support RBS students. You can help now. Visit rarebookschool.org/donate.

Well, @sibyllacumae.bsky.social and I are back (on schedule), with a longer-ish issue - we're talking about bindings! Read it here: 📜 #bookhistory open.substack.com/pub/twohalfs...

We highlight two recent @rarebookschool.bsky.social lectures, & new scholarship by John McQuillen! My fav. part? @sibyllacumae.bsky.social 's quote: "each binding is its own archaeological site: leaving layers of material evidence on the book which trace its life through owners and centuries."

Looking at parchment during Introduction to the History of Bookbinding at @rarebookschool.bsky.social last week. Photos by Andrew Shurtleff.

Did you miss @chrisvvarren.bsky.social's Malkin Lecture on computational bibliography last week, or just want to watch it again? You can now view it, along with other recordings of our 2025 Summer Lecture Series, on the RBS YouTube channel.

Karen Limper-Herz holding up some reindeer leather

More from today's class: Charles & I got to look at a book once owned by Queen Anne. Check out the back page with the ad for false teeth!

As a book history/digital humanities scholar, I immensely enjoyed this @rarebookschool.bsky.social talk on Warren's term, computational bibliography, as a set of tools to connect the study of artifact (microscopic/Hinman) to ideology (systemic/Darnton). (1/7)

Excited to hear the inimitable Paul Needham hold forth on the Catholicon! @rarebookschool.bsky.social

Some highlights from Day 1 of the @rarebookschool.bsky.social course "Introduction to the History of Bookbinding" with Karen Limper-Herz of @britishlibrary.bsky.social. I've already learned a ton and met a bunch of great people.

It’s 5am on a Saturday in July, so we must be in the airport in our way to @rarebookschool.bsky.social

⏲️+✏️+🔍+📓+🧠 = 📜

Check out this 🧵 about what @lisafdavis.bsky.social's RBS class, "Medieval Manuscript Fragments: Cataloging & Discoverability," has been up to this week! #MedievalSky #RareBooks

TODAY! Join us in person or via Zoom livestream. #MedievalSky #BookSky

First day @rarebookschool.bsky.social I'm thrilled to be in Charlottesville this week taking The Printed Book in the West to 1800. Let the bibliographic deep dive begin! 📚✨ #rarebooks #bookhistory #specialcollections

TODAY! Join us in person or via Zoom livestream. @womenknowhistory.bsky.social

Off to Charlottesville to teach a week-long #Fragmentology intensive @rarebookschool.bsky.social. There's nothing like RBS: a community of like-minded bibliophiles learning together for eight hours a day! It is invigorating and inspiring (& exhausting). Can't wait! rarebookschool.org/courses/libr...

Christopher N. Warren will give a free public talk on “What is Computational Bibliography?” at 5:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday 30 July, in UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Auditorium or via Zoom. Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures #BookSky #DigitalHumanities

Join us for a free public talk on "The 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘯 Question" by RBS faculty member Paul Needham at 5:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday 29 July at Princeton University (East Pyne 010) or via Zoom. Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures #BookSky

Rachael DiEleuterio will give the inaugural Sue Allen Lecture for Women in Book History on “Curious and Creative Women” at 5:30 p.m. ET on Monday 28 July, in UVA’s Shannon Library, room 330, or via Zoom. Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures

James H. Marrow will give a free public talk, “Iconographic Disjunction in the Ruskin Psalter/Hours: A Flemish Illuminated Manuscript of ca. 1470–80,” at 5:30 p.m. ET on Wed. 23 July, in UVA’s Small Special Collections Library Auditorium or via Zoom. Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures

Will QT periodically w/photos from last week's @rarebookschool.bsky.social @briancassidy.bsky.social class. Highly recommend, incl for combo book arts+history, zine+really any 20thc history folks (ID how primary docs made+what that says re:who/why), if you dig critical+humanfocused history of tech

E. M. Rose will give the 2025 NEH-SHARP Living American History in Primary Documents Lecture, “Books for Virginia 1620: America’s First Public Library?”, at 5:30 p.m. ET on 21 July in UVA’s Edgar Shannon Library, Room 330 or via Zoom. Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures

I've been participating on this course this week, thanks to the James Davis Scholarship I received in 2024. I'm having such a good time! Wonderful people. Thanks @rarebookschool.bsky.social 💖