{"id":8228,"date":"2014-07-04T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=8228"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:04:15","slug":"rare-book-school-here-i-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/04\/rare-book-school-here-i-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Book School – Here I Come"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RBS-ErinFletcher\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After reading through 1,275 pages of content detailing the history of bookbinding, I’m ready for my week-long course at the Rare Book School<\/a>. For the following week, I’ll be spending my days at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville filling my brain with even more detailed information on the history of bookbinding! RBS\u00a0was founded by Terry Belanger in 1983 at Columbia University as an institute to support the study of the history of books and printing and related topics for scholars and professionals working in these fields. RBS\u00a0was moved to the University of Virginia in 1992.<\/p>\n

I’ll be taking\u00a0Introduction to the History of Bookbinding<\/a>, which\u00a0is a course that has been taught by\u00a0Jan Storm van Leeuwen for over ten years. He is the retired Keeper of the Binding Collection at the Dutch Royal Library in The Hague. In his retired years, he\u00a0continues to publish and lecture widely on the history of bookbinding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While I’m in Virginia, the blog will be a bit quiet. Once I return to Boston, filled with greater bookbinding knowledge, you can look forward to a post about my experience at RBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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