Rare Book School

Rezek, Joseph - "Ideologies of the Codex in Hakluyt and Smith" - NEH-SHARP Lecture, 1 Aug 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

Marcus, Hannah - "Characterizing the Elderly across Formats in Early Modern Italy" - 27 July 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

McNamee, Megan - "Significance of a Concertina-Fold Almanac" - Kress Lecture - 25 July 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

Roldán Vera, Eugenia - "Book Trade in the Anglo-Iberian Atlantic" - Karmiole Lecture - 13 July 22 by Rare Book School Lectures

White, Eric - "A History of the Gutenberg Bible (continued)" - Malkin Lecture, 11 July 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

Wisecup, Kelly - "Making and Reading Indigenous Archives" NEH-GBHI - 15 June 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

Rogers, Beverly - "Victorian Connections: Books and Stories" Rendell Lecture - 13 June 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

Wong, Dorothy - “Making Merit: East Asian Buddhist Material Culture” NEH-GBHI Lecture - 6 June 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

“Lost Archives and Paper Reuse in the Medieval Islamic World”

Marina Rustow, Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, and …

“He Lau Nā Moʻolelo: The Challenge and Promise of Hawaiian Language Textual Archives”
Noelani Arista, Director, Indigenous Studies Program, and …

"Subscription Publishing in America over Three Centuries" by Michael Winship - Rare Book School’s inaugural Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the …

Goldsby and McGill - "What is 'Black' about Black Bibliography?" - 3 August 2021 by Rare Book School Lectures

Yale, Elizabeth - "Paper-Keeping: Women, Family, Knowledge Work..." - 27 July 2021 by Rare Book School Lectures

Hidalgo, Alex - "The Book as Archive" - 15 June 2021 by Rare Book School Lectures

Robb, Megan - "Print and the Urdu Public" - 23 July 2020 by Rare Book School Lectures

Nishikawa, Kinohi – "From Poet to Publisher: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks by Design" - 16 July 2020 by Rare Book School Lectures

Ramachandran, Ayesha – "An Alternative History of the Atlas" - 2 July 2020 by Rare Book School Lectures

Trettien, Whitney - "A Hornbook for Digital Book History" - 18 June 2020 by Rare Book School Lectures

Full title: "Superheroes and Shocking Affairs, or, Adventures in Cataloging Popular Literature"

RBS-Mellon lecture by Pamela Klassen (Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto), given at Franklin & …

RBS-Mellon lecture by Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir (Research Associate Professor, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, University of Iceland), …

This recording is of conference Session 2:

Towards a Critical Bibliography of the Handwritten
Chair: Dale Billingsley, University of Louisville

“Messy Writings: Unraveling Korean Manuscript Books”
Hwisang Cho, Emory …

Featuring "The Message & the Messengers: Artistic Illustrations of the Qur’an and the Prophets in Islamic Manuscripts"

Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building, Princeton University

Dr. Tehseen Thaver, Assistant …

Lecture 513 (30 July 2008)

Lecture 512 (28 July 2008)

Lecture 510 (9 July 2008)

Full title: "More Baby Books than You Can Shake a Rattle At: Building a New Collection for Research in the History of Infant …

Lecture 509 (7 July 2008)

Full title: "Alice’s Top Ten List: Rare Maps: Keeping Them Under Control, Letting Them Go Public"

Lecture 508 (18 June 2008)

Lecture 507 (16 June 2008)

Lecture 506 (9 June 2008)

Full title: "John Feely Meets Samuel Dodd: The Use of Internet Databases in Studying the History of the American Book Trades"

Lecture 503 (30 July 2007)

Lecture 502 (23 July 2007)

Full title: "Scissors, Prints and Paste: Frederick and Amelia Lock Make a Scrapbook at Norbury Park in 1791"

Lecture 501 (18 July 2007)

Full title: "Brave New World or Mere Anarchy? Reflections on the Revolution in National Research Librarianship"

Lecture 498 (11 June 2007)

Lecture 497 (4 June 2007)

Full title: "The Pattern Book of Samuel Dodd, 19th-Century New Jersey Engraver of Binding Stamps: A Remarkable Discovery"

Lecture 492 (14 December 2006)

The 2006 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Lecture 493 (24 July 2006)

Full title: "‘Take Things Always by Their Smooth Handle,’ and Other Advices for a New Director"

Lecture 492 (17 July 2006)

Lecture 491 (12 June 2006)

Lecture 489 (5 June 2006)

Full title: "Pitching Theoretical Tents: A Lecture Celebrating RBS’s Acquisition of Its 100th Copy of John Greenleaf …

Lecture 488 (6 March 2006)

Lecture 486 (9 December 2005)

Lecture 484 (18 July 2005)

Full title: "Quixotic Typography: Composing Maps and Illustrations Using Special Letterpress Fonts"

Lecture 483 (11 July 2005)

Lecture 482 (27 June 2005)

Lecture 478 (2 August 2004)

Lecture 474 (11 March 2004)

Full title: "Typographical Monstrosities: Public Opinion and New Letterforms in Late Georgian London"

Lecture 473 (8 March 2004)

Lecture 470 (4 August 2003)

Lecture 469 (28 July 2003)

Lecture 467 (9 June 2003)

Lecture 464 (5 August 2002)

Full title: "MA and LW and Us: The Growth of the Rare Book School Pedagogical Collections, 1972–2002"

Lecture 463 (29 July 2002)

Lecture 462 (15 July 2002)

The 2002 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture.

Lecture 460 (8 July 2002)

Lecture 459 (3 June 2002)

Note: this recording is mono track (right only).

Lecture 458 (27 May 2002)

Full title: "‘Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing’: Shakespeare’s First Folio and the Rare Book Marketplace"

Lecture 457 (11 March 2002)

Lecture 456 (7 January 2002)

Full title: "Westward the Course of Books Takes Its Way: English Books and American Collectors in the Later 19th and …

Lecture 455 (6 August 2001)

Lecture 451 (16 July 2001)

Full title: "From Bibliography to Book History: the Massey College Press and Other Special Collections of the Massey …

Lecture 450 (4 June 2001)

Lecture 448 (12 March 2001)

This talk was repeated with slight variation as lecture 448.

Lecture 447 (21 February 2001)

Lecture 446 (8 January 2001)

Full title: "Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s 'The Ox-Bow Incident': A Case Study in the Complexities of Book History"

Lecture 445 (9 August 2000)

Lecture 444 (31 July 2000)

Lecture 442 (26 June 2000)

Lecture 437 (13 March 2000)

Lecture 434 (10 January 2000)

Lecture 439 (7 May 2000)

Similar versions of this talk were given as lectures 435 and 436.

Lecture 433 (5 August 1999)

Similar versions of this talk were given as lectures 424, 427, and 430

Lecture 432 (4 August 1999)

Lecture 431 (2 August 1999)

Lecture 428 (26 July 1999)

Lecture 419 (6 August 1998)

Similar versions of this talk were given as lectures 410, 413, and 416.

Lecture 417 (3 August 1998)

Lecture 415 (29 July 1998)

Lecture 414 (27 July 1998)

Lecture 412 (22 July 1998)

Lecture 411 (20 July 1998)

Lecture 409 (15 July 1998)

Lecture 408 (13 March 1998)

Lecture 402 (7 August 1997)

Similar versions of this talk were given as lectures 393, 396, and 399.

Lecture 401 (6 August 1997)

Lecture 400 (4 August 1997)

Note: The end of this lecture is cut off; apologies!

Lecture 398 (30 July 1997)

Lecture 397 (28 July 1997)

Lecture 391 (14 July 1997)

Lecture 389 (8 August 1996)

Similar versions of this talk were given as lectures 380, 383, and 386.

Lecture 388 (7 August 1996)

Lecture 387 (5 August 1996)

Lecture 385 (31 July 1996)

Lecture 382 (24 July 1996)

Full title: "Pirates, Shipwrecks, and Comic Almanacs: Charles Ellms Packages Books in 19th-Century America"

Lecture 381 (22 July 1996)

Lecture 378 (15 July 1996)

Lecture 377 (10 August 1995)

Similar versions of this talk were given as lectures 365, 368, 371, and 374.

Lecture 376 (9 August 1995)

Lecture 375 (7 August 1995)

Full title: "How a Novice Book Collector Decided to Catalog His Lord Byron Collection and Went Mad in the Process"

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Lecture 373 (2 August 1995)

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Lecture 370 (26 July 1995)

Note: the beginning of this lecture is omitted.

Lecture 369 (24 July 1995)

Lecture 364 (11 July 1995)

Full title: "Lucile‘s Adventures in America, 1860–1910: Orchids, Gold Leaf, and Padded Leather"

Lecture 361 (10 August 1994)

Lecture 359 (4 August 1994)

Similar versions of this talk were given as lectures 350, 353, 356, and 362.

Lecture 349 (13 July 1994)

Lecture 344 (27 July 1993)

Lecture 343 (26 July 1993)

Lecture 339 (14 July 1993)

Full title: "Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Visual and Verbal Encounters"

Lecture 337 (12 July 1993)

Lecture 335 (6 July 1993)

Full title: "Scholarly Editing in Virtual Space, With Special Reference to the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti"

Lecture 328 (20 April 1992)

Full title: "‘Some Strange Ways of Making a Living’: Augustus Toedteberg of Brooklyn and the Art of Extra-Illustration"

Lecture 317 (10 July 1991)

Lecture 316 (9 July 1991)

Lecture 315 (9 May 1991)

Lecture 314 (29 April 1991)

Lecture 311 (25 March 1991)

Lecture 310 (25 February 1991)

Full title: "From Prison to LC: Meditations and Reflections on the Administration of Diverse and Special Collections"

Lecture 290 (11 July 1990)

Lecture 308 (26 November 1990)

Lecture 307 (14 November 1990)

Lecture 306 (12 November 1990)

Lecture 305 (31 July 1990)

Lecture 304 (30 July 1990)

Lecture 341 (20 July 1993)

Full title: "From the Margins to the Center: The Coming ‘Mainstreaming’ of Rare Books and Special Collections"

Lecture 299 (12 July 1990)

Lecture 297 (9 July 1990)

Lecture 295 (30 April 1990)

Lecture 294 (16 April 1990)

Full title: "The Role of the History of the Book in the Humanities: The History of the Book … and the Study of … Change"

Lecture 293 (9 April 1990)

Lecture 292 (2 April 1990)

Lecture 290 (19 February 2019)

Lecture 289 (19 February 1990)

Lecture 288 (19 February 1990)

Lecture 286 (23 October 1989)

Lecture 285 (9 October 1989)

Lecture 284 (25 September 1989)

This is only a partial recording, but the topic is of such interest we thought it best to post it as is.

Lecture 281 (24 July 1989)

Lecture 280 (18 July 1989)

Lecture 278 (13 July 1989)

Lecture 277 (11 July 1989)

Lecture 282 (25 July 1989)

Lecture 279 (17 July 1989)

Lecture 274 (5 July 1989)

Lecture 273 (24 April 1989)

Lecture 270 (30 January 1989)

Full title: "Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours; or How an Exhibition of Illuminated MSS Nearly Killed Its Curator"

Lecture 268 (24 October 1988)

Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Lecture 267 (17 October 1988)

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Lecture 265 (30 June 1988)

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Lecture 263 (22 June 1988)

Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side. The lecture ends abruptly, but as the recording is nearly complete, we offer it as at least a partial recording.

Lecture 261 (14 June 1988)

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Lecture 260 (13 June 1988)

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Lecture 258 (2 May 1988)

Lecture 257 (25 April 1988)

Lecture 255 (12 April 1988)

Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Lecture 254 (7 April 1988)

Lecture 253 (28 March 1988)

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Lecture 250 (23 November 1987)

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Lecture 249 (26 October 1987)

Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Lecture 248 (19 October 1987)

Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Lecture 247 (12 October 1987)

Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Lecture 246 (5 October 1987)

Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Lecture 245 (28 September 1987)

Lecture 242 (23 July 1987)

Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Lecture 241 (21 July 1987)

Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Lecture 240 (14 July 1987)

Lecture 139 (12 December 1983)

Lecture 637 (29 July 2019)

Full title: "Cheap and Bad Books: A Social History of Printing and Publishing in Colonial India"

An NEH-GBHI Lecture

Lecture 636 (22 July 2019)

Full title: "Revolutionary Spirits: Typescript Books, DIY Zines, and Other Forms of Unsanctioned Publishing in Maoist and …

Lecture 635 (13 July 2019)

Delivered after the July 2019 meeting of the RBS Board of Directors.

Lecture 634 (10 July 2019)

The 2019 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Lecture 633 (8 July 2019)

Apologies for the quiet audio on this lecture; you may need to turn up the volume higher than usual.

Lecture 631 (10 June 2019)

Full title: "Despite Hostile Terrain: Witness to Racism in the Artists’ Books of Primrose Press"

Lecture 629 (3 June 2019)

Lecture 628. Delivered at the RBS-UVA Fellowship Luncheon, 10 May 2019. Rare Book School founding director Terry Belanger introduces Neal Curtis as …

Welcoming remarks by Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (Executive Director, Rare Book School) & John Unsworth (University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, …

Session 2: Storytelling & Memory — 11:15 a.m.–12:45 p.m.

Panelists:

“Wakanda Forever: Three Opportunities for Legacy Making” – Aaisha Haykal …

Session 3: Community Archives & Outreach — 1:45–3:15 p.m.

Panelists:

“The Missing Stories: How Stories Become Lost and How They Can Be Recovered” – Samip Mallick (Executive Director, South Asian American Digital …

Session 4: Roundtable Discussion: Cultural Heritage, Social Justice, and Individual Responsibility — 3:45–5:15 p.m.

Panelists:

Brenda Gunn (Associate …

Lecture 318 (11 July 1991)

Lecture 627 (1 August 2018)

Lecture 626 (30 July 2018). The 2018 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Full title: "New Research into John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757): Its …

Lecture 625 (25 July 2018)

Full title: "Presenting the Yoshiwara in Monochrome and Full Color: The Annual Events of the ‘Azure Towers,’ Illustrated"

Lecture 624 (23 July 2018)

Lecture 623 (10 July 2018)

This roundtable discussion included the following featured speakers:

Cynthia Marsh, Professor of Art, Founder of the Goldsmith Press & Rare Type …

Lecture 621 (11 June 2018)

Lecture 620 (4 June 2018)

Full title: "Reconstitute the World: Machine-reading Archives of Mass Extinction"

Text available at …

Lecture 234 (27 April 1987)

Full title: "This Dish is Cheap But Delicious: Academic Publishing in the Late 20th Century"

Note: This recording is not in …

Lecture 230 (30 March 1987)

Note: the first half of the recording is very quiet

Lecture 229 (23 March 1987). Full title "Printing and Typefounding in the Late 17th-Century 'Description of Trades' of the French Academy of Science"

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Lecture 228 (9 February 1987)

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Lecture 225 (1 December 1986)

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Lecture 224 (24 November 1986)

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Lecture 223 (10 November 1986)

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Lecture 220 (6 October 1986)

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Lecture 215 (17 July 1986)

Note: The audio on this one is rather wobbly. Apologies.

Lecture 214 (15 July 1986)

Full title: "Wheel of Fortune; or, Strategic Planning in a Small Research Library and a Popular TV Game Show Compared"

Lecture 213 (9 July 1986)

Lecture 212 (7 July 1986)

Lecture 208 (3 March 1986)

Lecture 206 (3 February 1986)

Lecture 201 (19 November 1985)

Note: The audio on this one is a little wobbly in places, and not in stereo for a stretch in the middle.

Lecture 200 (18 November 1985). Full title: "The Development of Conservation and Bookbinding at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center"

Note: The …

Lecture 283 (27 July 1989)

Lecture 425 (19 July 1999)

Short Presentations 6: The Book and Its Time: Developing a ‘Period Eye’

Session Organizer: Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire (Winterthur Museum)
Moderator: Catharine Dann Roeber (Assistant Professor of Decorative Arts and …

Short Presentations 5: Dynamics of Digital Collections

Session Organizer: Paul Fyfe (North Carolina State University) & Zachary Hines (The …

Short Presentations 4: Teaching Global Book History

Session Organizers: Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard University) & Ben Nourse (University of Denver)
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Short Presentations 3: Hands-on Demonstration – Teaching with Stuff: Building Bibliographical Collections at Rare Book School with Limited (or no) …

Short Presentations 2: Innovative Pedagogy with Material Objects

Session Organizer: Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa)
Moderator: Michael F. Suarez, …

Short Presentations 1: Tools for Data Analysis & Visualization

Session Organizer: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University)
Moderator: Meredith L. …

Roundtable 6: Ethics & Responsibility in the Bibliosphere

Session Organizer: Claire Eager (University of Virginia)
Moderator: Katherine Reagan …

Roundtable 5: Materiality as a Sustainable Humanistic Discourse

Session Organizers: Dahlia Porter (University of Glasgow) & Elizabeth Yale …

Roundtable 4: Digitization, Representation & Access

Session Organizers: Paul Fyfe (North Carolina State University) & Sonia Hazard (Franklin …

Roundtable 3: Authorship

Session Organizers: András Kiséry (The City College of New York) & Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi)
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Roundtable 2: Performance, Textuality & Orality

Session Organizer: Glenda Goodman (University of Pennsylvania)
Moderator: Kate van Orden (Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music, Harvard University)

Bethany Cencer …

Pop-Up Session 1: Critical Bibliography and Social Justice (Roundtable)

Please note: due to a technical difficulty (the recorder got unplugged, we …

Paper Session 12: Reappraising the Redundant: The Value of Copies in the Study of Textual Artifacts

Session Organizer: Katherine Mintie (DePauw University)
Moderator: David Whitesell (Curator, Albert and Shirley Small …

Paper Session 11: Comparative Histories of the Book

Session Organizers: Megan McNamee (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts) & Caroline …

Paper Session 10: Reading the Whole Book: Object Interpretation

Session Organizers: Lauren Jennings (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) …

Paper Session 9: Manuscript in the Age of Print

Session Organizers: Rachael King (University of California, Santa Barbara) & Marissa Nicosia (Penn …

Paper Session 8: Books as Agents of Contact

Session Organizers: Hansun Hsiung (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), András Kiséry (The …

Paper Session 7: The Social Life of Books: Uses of Text & Image Beyond Reading & Viewing

Session Organizers: Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University), Hannah Marcus (Harvard University), Marissa Nicosia (Penn …

Paper Session 6: Materiality of Digital Objects

Session Organizer: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University)
Moderator: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum …

Paper Session 5: Degradation, Loss, Recovery & Fragmentation

Session Organizer: Jane Raisch (University of York)
Moderator: Arthur Bahr (Associate …

Paper Session 4: Transmission & Transfer of Images

Session Organizer: Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University)
Moderator: Kathryn Rudy (Director …

Paper Session 3: Questions of Scale, Production & Labor

Session Organizer: Juliet Sperling (University of Pennsylvania)
Moderator: Suzanne Karr …

Paper Session 2: Textual Instruments

Session Organizer: Nick Wilding (Georgia State University)
Moderator: Ann Blair (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard …

Paper Session 1: Graphic Representation: Illustration & Diagrams

Session Organizer: Claire Eager (University of Virginia)
Moderator: Michael Sappol …

Plenary Session 3: “Bibliography Among the Disciplines” Community Plenary

Session Organizers: András Kiséry (The City College of New York) and Marissa …

Plenary Session 2: The Future of the Past: Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age

Nancy Y. McGovern (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Making …

Plenary Session 1: "Historicizing Critical Bibliography"

Anthony Grafton (Princeton University): “Bio-Bibliography in Early Modern Europe: Towards a History of Practice”

François Deroche (Chair in the History of the …

Lecture 619 (1 November 2017), celebrating the 25th anniversary of Rare Book School's arrival at the University of Virginia

Lecture 618 (31 July 2017)

Lecture 616 (24 July 2017)

Speaker: Meredith L. McGill, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University

Lecture 614 (12 July 2017). The 2017 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Lecture 613 (10 July 2017)

Speaker: Glen Miranker, Sherlock Holmes Collector

Lecture 612 (12 June 2017). Beinecke Library, Yale University

Speaker: Kathryn James, Curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts & the Osborn …

Lecture 611 (12 June 2017). Watch the accompanying video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggttPftmVs

Lecture 610 (5 June 2017). Full title "Hunting for Textual Bodies: Rethinking the Relationship between the Poetic Voice and Manuscript Matter"

Lecture 422 (12 July 1999)

Lecture 609. Delivered at the RBS-UVA Fellowship Luncheon, 10 May 2017. Barbara Heritage introduces Rare Book School founding director Terry …

Why are modern day readers still responsive to "Jane Eyre," and how do their readings influence the life of the text? UVA's Linden Kent Memorial …

Lecture 256 (19 April 1988)

Lecture 608 (14 November 2016)

Lecture 605 (5 August 2016). The 2016 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Lecture 603 (25 July 2016)

Lecture 601 (11 July 2016). Full title: "Print Cultures and Protest in (Southern) Africa: Bibliography, Anthropology, Ideology, and Aesthetics"

Lecture 600 (15 June 2016). The lecture is followed by a presentation in honor of Mary Gilliam, recently elected president of the Antiquarian …

Lecture 598 (13 June 2016)

Lecture 595 (18 May 2016). Delivered at the RBS-UVA Fellowship Luncheon. Terry Belanger introduces Peter Miller as the winner of the 2016 Betsy and Stuart Houston Prize.

Lecture 594 (17 March 2016)

Lecture 454 (30 July 2001). Full title "Hawthorne and the Scribbling Women: Publishing 'The Scarlet Letter' in the 19th-Century United States"

Lecture 340 (19 July 1993)

Lecture 204 (16 December 1985). The 1985 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Lecture 199 (28 October 1985). Full title "The Flowering of Typography: The Development of Printers’ Flowers with Special Reference to French Rococo …

Lecture 198 (30 September 1985)

Lecture 196 (5 August 1985)

Lecture 193 (23 July 1985)

Lecture 190 (15 July 1985)

Lecture 186 (15 April 1985). Full title "Digging in the Dumpster and Other Cautionary Tales of Modern Manuscript Collecting"

Lecture 185 (8 April 1985)

Lecture 184 (1 April 1985)

Lecture 183 (25 March 1985)

Lecture 182 (18 March 1985)

Lecture 179 (28 January 1985)

Lecture 177 (3 December 1984)

Lecture 175 (15 November 1984)

Lecture 173 (22 October 1984)

Lecture 169 (24 September 1984). Full title "Three Years Out: Reflections of a Young [But Rapidly Aging] Rare Book Librarian"

Lecture 167 (14 August 1984)

Lecture 166 (13 August 1984)

Lecture 164 (8 August 1984)

Lecture 163 (7 August 1984)

Lecture 162 (1 August 1984). Full title "Stereotyping in the Ancien Regime: F. I. J. Hoffmann and the 37th Parisian Printing Press"

Lecture 161 (31 July 1984)

Lecture 158 (25 July 1984)

Lecture 156 (18 July 1984)

Lecture 153 (12 July 1984)

Lecture 152 (11 July 1984). Full title "The Making of Little King Pippin: John Locke and Education and Children’s Books"

Lecture 148 (23 April 1984). Full title "Hoeing Out the Augean Stables: Special Collections at the University of California, San Diego"

Lecture 145 (2 April 1984)

Lecture 138 (5 December 1983)

Lecture 137 (28 November 1983)

Lecture 136 (14 November 1983)

Lecture 130 (27 July 1983)

Lecture 123 (16 June 1983)

Lecture 120 (5 April 1983)

Lecture 119 (4 April 1983)

Lecture 114 (28 February 1983)

Lecture 112 (31 January 1983)

Lecture 111 (3 January 1983). Full title "Life with Father: Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of San Francisco"

Lecture 110 (29 November 1982)

Lecture 106 (10 November 1982). Full title "The American Antiquarian Society: Independent Research Libraries, Present and Future"

Lecture 104 (18 October 1982)

Lecture 101 (7 October 1982)

Lecture 100 (30 September 1982)

Lecture 97 (7 September 1982)

Lecture 95 (29 April 1982)

Lecture 92 (5 April 1982)

Lecture 84 (16 November 1981)

Lecture 79 (27 April 1981)

Lecture 76 (7 April 1981). Full title "The Whole Picture: The Role of the Rare Book Library and Museum in Collecting Early Children’s Books"

Lecture 74 (24 March 1981)

Lecture 66 (11 September 1980)

Lecture 62 (16 April 1980)

Lecture 591 (29 July 2015). Full title "How to Destroy Special Collections with Social Media in 3 Easy Steps: A Guide for Researchers and Librarians"

Lecture 589 (24 July 2015). Full title "Who’s Hiding Here? Artists and their Signatures in Persian Manuscripts of the Early Modern Period"

Lecture 587 (22 July 2015). Full title "Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads: or, How Do We Move Forward Without Getting Run Over?" The 2015 Sol. …

Lecture 585 (8 July 2015)

Lecture 583 (6 July 2015)

Lecture 582 (17 June 2015)

Lecture 581 (15 June 2015)

Lecture 580 (9 June 2015). Full title "‘Pray gentlemen compositors …’: Boswell’s 'Life of Johnson' from Manuscript to Book"

Lecture 579 (8 June 2015)

Lecture 578 (12 May 2015)

Lecture 575 (28 July 2014)

Lecture 576 (28 July 2014)

Lecture 573 (21 July 2014)

Lecture 572 (9 July 2014). Full title "Teaching American Book History: Perspectives after Two Decades." The 2014 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin …

Lecture 570 (18 June 2014)

Lecture 569 (16 June 2014)

Lecture 568 (11 June 2014)

Lecture 566 (31 October 2013)

Lecture 565 (31 July 2013)

Lecture 564 (29 July 2013)

Lecture 563 (24 July 2013)

Lecture 561 (10 July 2013)

Lecture 560 (8 July 2013)

Lecture 559 (19 June 2013). The 2013 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Lecture 557 (17 June 2013)

Lecture 555 (10 June 2013)

Lecture 553 (25 July 2012)

Lecture 552 (23 July 2012). The 2012 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Lecture 551 (18 July 2012)

Lecture 550 (16 July 2012)

Lecture 549 (4 July 2012)

Lecture 548 (2 July 2012). Full title "Documenting Counter-Culture: Problems and Solutions in the Preservation of Unpopular Historical Narratives"

Lecture 547 (13 June 2012). Full title "A Most Fascinating and Dangerous Pursuit: Rare Books at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum"

Lecture 546 (11 June 2012)

Lecture 541 (27 July 2011)

Lecture 540 (25 July 2011). Full title "Parallel Lines Never Meet: Dolphins and Anchors and Aldus || Book Historians and Numismatists and Roman Coins"

Lecture 536 (4 July 2011)

Lecture 535 (15 June 2011). Full title "Victorian Serials: Essential Parts of the 19th-Century Imagination." The 2011 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian …

Lecture 532 (6 June 2011)

Lecture 531.5 (10 January 2011). Full title "Books by Rail: The Baltimore & Ohio Employees’ Free Circulating Library"

Lecture 529 (21 July 2010)

Lecture 526 (12 July 2010)

Lecture 522 (7 June 2010). Full title "The Heavyweight Bout: Linotype vs Monotype. The Two Dominant Technologies of Hot-Metal Typesetting Square Off"

Lecture 520 (4 November 2009)

Lecture 516 (22 June 2009). Full title "B. H. B. in Retrospect: Bernard H. Breslauer, Bookseller of the World"

Lecture 515 (8 June 2009). Full title "‘Exit, pursued by a bear': Reflections on Libraries, Wall Street, and Things that Last"

Lecture 514 (6 January 2009). Full title "Bookbindings: Depicted and Real, On Chemise and Girdle Bindings, and Other Special and Plain Bindings from …

Lecture 511 (21 July 2008). Full title "The Future of Research and Rare Book Libraries (and What It Will Take for Them to Have a Future)." The 2008 …

Lecture 504 (15 October 2007)

Lecture 499 (12 June 2007). Full title "‘Thou Shall Not Sit with Statisticians': Bibliography, Book History, and the Difficulties of Counting to …

Lecture 500 (18 July 2007). Full title "‘All Sorts of Printing at reasonable Rates': Franklin’s Way to Wealth as a Job Printer." The 2007 Sol. M and …

Lecture 485 (27 July 2005). The 2005 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Lecture 480 (6 June 2005)

Lecture 477 (26 July 2004). Full title "Oaks from Acorns? The Historical Turning Points of American Learned Libraries"

Lecture 476 (12 July 2004). The 2004 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Lecture 453 (25 July 2001). Full title "The Origins of the Second-Hand Book Trade: The Market for Antiquarian Books in England between the Middle …

Lecture 443 (24 July 2000). The 2000 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Lecture 441 (19 June 2000). Full title "Mastering the Machines: Special Collections Librarians, Technology, and the Future"

Lecture 429 (28 July 1999)

Lecture 426 (21 July 1999)

Lecture 423 (14 July 1999)

Lecture 418 (5 August 1998). The 1998 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Lecture 395 (23 July 1997). The 1997 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Lecture 379 (17 July 1996). Full title "The Changing World of Manuscripts and Rare Books: or Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be." The 1996 Sol. M. …

Lecture 372 (31 July 1995)

Lecture 363 (10 July 1995). The 1995 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Lecture 358 (3 August 1994). The 1994 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Lecture 338 (13 July 1993). The 1993 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Lecture 326 (16 December 1991). The 1991 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Lecture 309 (17 December 1990). The 1990 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Lecture 303 (26 July 1990)

Lecture 301 (17 July 1990)

Lecture 300 (16 July 1990)

Lecture 287 (18 December 1989). Full title "The Scenery Has Changed: Purpose and Potential of the Rare Book Trade." The 1989 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Lecture 275 (6 July 1989)

Lecture 269 (12 December 1988). Full title "‘Put a Resolute Hart to a Steep Hill': William Gowans, Antiquary and Bookseller." The 1988 Sol. M. Malkin …

Lecture 251 (30 November 1987)

Lecture 239 (13 July 1987)

Lecture 226 (15 December 1986). Full title "The Gentle Invasion: The Impact of the Immigration of German and Austrian Booksellers in the 1930s." The …

Lecture 222 (20 October 1986). Full title "Innovation, Imitation, and Piracy: The Books of Peter Parley and His Creator, Samuel Goodrich"

Lecture 219 (29 September 1986). Full title "Bibliotheca Lindesiana: The Lives and Collections of the 25th and 26th Earls of Crawford"

Lecture 216 (22 July 1986)

Lecture 205 (27 January 1986)

Lecture 296 (7 May 1990)

Lecture 203 (9 December 1985)

Lecture 195 (30 July 1985)

Lecture 191 (17 July 1985)

Lecture 181 (18 February 1985). Full title "The Hitler Diaries and the Information Industries: The Failure of Professionalism"

Lecture 168 (15 August 1984)

Lecture 159 (26 July 1984)

Lecture 157 (23 July 1984)

Lecture 144 (19 March 1984)

Lecture 142 (23 February 1984)

Lecture 141 (30 January 1984)

Lecture 140 (23 January 1984)

Lecture 131 (1 August 1983)

Lecture 127 (21 July 1983)

Lecture 126 (20 July 1983). Full title "In Which Cities Were They Bound? The Identification of 18th-Century American Bookbinding"

Lecture 125 (14 July 1983)

Lecture 124 (12 July 1983)

Lecture 121 (11 April 1983). Full title "‘The Farmer and the Cowboy Should be Friends': What Rare Book Librarians Should Know about the Antiquarian …

Lecture 118 (24 March 1983)

Lecture 117 (21 March 1983)

Lecture 116 (17 March 1983)

Lecture 115 (10 March 1983)

Lecture 102 (11 October 1982)

Lecture 93 (12 April 1982). Full title "The Library of Robert Hooke: A Microcosm of the Restoration Book Trade"

Lecture 91 (31 March 1982). Full title "On NOT Being in London: The English 18th-Century Provincial Book Trade"

Lecture 89 (8 March 1982). Full title: "Deaccessioning at Cambridge in the 1860s: Henry Stevens of Vermont and His American Customers"

Lecture 70 (20 November 1980). Full title "From Codex to Silicon Chip: An Overview of Developments in Communications from the 4th to the 21st …

Lecture 8 (27 November 1973)