Rare Book School
Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials. Here you will find lectures, webinars, and digital content from our faculty and guest speakers.
M C. Lang Fellowship Informational Session, 29 October 2025
The Catholicon Press Revisited: The Evidence of Nailheads
2025 Malkin Lecture: "What is Computational Bibliography?"
2025 Sue Allen Lecture: “Curious and Creative Women”
Iconographic Disjunction in the Ruskin Psalter/Hours: A Flemish Illuminated Manuscript of c.1470–80
2025 NEH-SHARP Lecture: "Books for Virginia 1620: America's First Public Library?"
2025 Karmiole Lecture: "Publishing in the Renaissance: Christophe Plantin's Business Strategy"
Rare Book School Oral History Project: David Pearson, UL Institute of English Studies & RBS Faculty
Rare Book School Oral History Project: Deborah Leslie, Folger Shakespeare Library & RBS Faculty
Rare Book School Oral History Project: Ellen Dunlap, President Emerita, American Antiquarian Society
Rare Book School Oral History Project: Eric Holzenberg, Director Emeritus of the Grolier Club
Rare Book School Oral History Project: G. Scott Clemons, Private Collector
Rare Book School Oral History Project: John Crichton, Proprietor, The Brick Row Book Shop
Rare Book School Oral History Project: Lisa Baskin, Collector and Activist
Rare Book School Oral History Project: Roger Wieck, Curator and Dept. Head, Morgan Library & Museum
Rare Book School Oral History Project: Erin Blake, Folger Shakespeare Library
Rare Book School Oral History Project: Kenneth Rendell, Manuscripts and Rare Books Dealer
Rare Book School Oral History Project: Martin Antonetti, Director Emeritus of the McCormick Library
Rare Book School Oral History Project: McKey Berkman (RBS Board of Directors) and Jim Berkman
Rare Book School Oral History Project: Danielle Culpepper, RBS Director of Budget & Finance
Rare Book School Oral History Project: Caroline Duroselle Melish, Curator and Associate Librarian
Rare Book School Oral History Project: Barbara A. Shailor, Former Director, Beinecke Library, Yale
Rare Book School Oral History Project: Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard
Rare Book School Oral History Project: Paul Needham, Former Scheide Librarian, Princeton University
Rare Book School Oral History Project: Vincent Golden, Curator at the American Antiquarian Society
Rare Book School Oral History Project: William Buice, Former Chairman of the RBS Board
A Parallel History of Books and Blooks
2025 Rendell Lecture: "Jane Austen on the Cheap"
Archival Conversations (A Two-Part RBS CHF Series): The Ethics of Selling and Acquisitions
Archival Conversations (A Two-Part RBS CHF Series): Realities of Archival Diaspora