California Rare Book School

Course descriptions and application instructions can be found at www.calrbs.org/2025-courses/

Apply for CalRBS 2025: Priority Deadine Extended to 4/15/2025! You have 2 weeks to submit your application! After 4/15, the scholarship deadline will close, though we will continue accepting applications on a rolling basis. We are offering in-person courses in Oaxaca (Mexico), Los Angeles, & online!

I’m really looking forward to teaching an introduction to European manuscripts at Cal RBS this summer. Please apply, circulate, encourage others to apply! www.calrbs.org/introduction...

I do want to add - thanks to this course, my cataloging for the 1490 Mishneh Torah that Congressman Adam Schiff swore on a few days ago, was greatly enhanced thanks to @aarontpratt.bsky.social and the course he taught at @calrbs.bsky.social

Here is the full bib record:

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Done! Thanks for pointing that out.

CalRBS is happy to share our Summer 2025 course listings are published! We are dedicated to providing the knowledge and skills required by collectors and professionals studying for and working in all aspects of GLAM fields. #rarebooks #specialcollections #libraries #bibliograophy

Allie, a person with pink hair, smiling and pointing at a UCLA pole sign

Allie’s CalRBS faculty name tag sitting on top of a replica of the book from Sleeping Beauty

A person taking a picture of old books on a shelf

A person wearing a T-shirt patterned with books standing next to a person in a skirt patterned with books

My first day teaching at @calrbs.bsky.social was a BLAST!!! My students are so cool (and also stylish). I can’t believe I have this opportunity to teach this thing that I made up 🥹

Queer Bibliography conference, hosted this year by UCLA CalRBS, has extended its deadline to February 15, 2024! Submit!

#bibliography #queerbibliography #queerbibliographies #conference #library #libraries #archive #archives #musuems #bookcollector #bookcollecting #artistbook 📚📜

UCLA California Rare Book School is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the second annual Queer Bibliography conference to be held between July 24-27, 2024, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California. Full call for papers can be found at: www.calrbs.org/events/queer....

This Bibliography Lab is going to be a central resource for CalRBS courses. Not to mention, we have a *whole course* utilizing this space taught by @ryancordell.bsky.social called Hands-on Book Pedagogy! See calrbs.org/2024-courses/ for more information.

Ah, so sorry for that confusion. Critical Librarianship is in-person. The error has been fixed online.

Hey, let’s try this again.

This August I will be teaching "Hands-On Book History Pedagogy" at @calrbs.bsky.social - looking forward to hanging out with my favorite fellow book nerds, talking teaching & experimenting in UCLA’s new community print lab—come join us!

www.calrbs.org/program/cour...

We are pleased to announce that CalRBS is now accepting applications for the Summer 2024 season. Our listings of in-person and online courses can be found on our website: www.calrbs.org/2024-courses...

Congrats to Stephanie Still who has been named chief of the Library's Rare Books and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress! 📚 📜 #libraries

CalRBS has two codes to this site available. Do you know of a book, library, academic, or professional organization that needs one? Would like to facilitate more organizational/society activity here!

When @sarahpyke.bsky.social and I put the #QueerBibliography CFP together last year, we could never have imagined that it'd become an annual event. Very excited for QB 2024 which will be hosted by @calrbs.bsky.social. (And for future events in other locations: 2025 and 2026 are already spoken for!)

UCLA CalRBS is pleased to announce that it will host the second iteration of the #QueerBibliography conference in a hybrid format between July 25-July 27, 2024. A call for papers is forthcoming. Sign up for the CalRBS email list at the link in bio to be the first to know! 📚 📜 #libraries

Turns out spending a week investigating the largest museum library system in the world is pure joy! 📜📚

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I heard something about rare books, libraries, archives, and museums being kind of amazing! Happy to finally be here!