Join Us for CalRBS' 2022 Season!

Though we're now past our priority scholarship deadline, we're still accepting applications to CalRBS 2022!



This season, we're offering in-person courses in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. We have an online week, as well!



For more information and to review course descriptions, visit our website.

New York, 7/25-7/29

An Assembly on Using Artists’ Books to Decolonize Special Collections Libraries - Marshall Weber

Teaching in Special Collections: Creating Pedagogy & Space for Critical, Effective, and Inclusive Primary Source Literacy Instruction - Michaela Ullmann

CalRBS Curated Special Topics: Small Press Communication Circuits: Supply Chains, Publishing, and Distribution

Critical Librarianship in Praxis - Emily Drabinski



Online, 8/1-8/5

CalRBS Curated Special Topics: Artists and Archives
Born Digital/Digital Collections - Trevor Owens

Curating the Digital Afterlife: Analog Histories and Digital Futures - Tonia Sutherland

Archives and Climate Change - Eira Tansey



San Francisco, 8/8-8/12

Descriptive Bibliography - Gerald Cloud

Understanding Maps in an Academic Environment - Julie Sweetkind-Singer

History of Typography in the West: An Overview from Gutenberg to Adobe - Paul Shaw



Los Angeles, 8/15-8/19

Islamic Manuscript and Print Culture: from the Middle East to South Asia - 

Nur Sobers-Khan

Special Issues in Art Librarianship: Developing Critical/Decolonial Praxis - CalRBS Curated Course: Simone Fujita, Kit Messick, Lylliam Posadas, Hailey Loman

History of the Renaissance Book - Craig Kallendorf and Lisa Pon

English Paleography - Vanessa Wilkie

The Critical Praxis of Special Collections Librarianship - Mario Ramirez



We hope to see you this summer!