Module Identifier DS36310  
Module Title ADVANCED RARE BOOKS LIBRARIANSHIP  
Academic Year 2004/2005  
Co-ordinator Dr Christopher M Baggs  
Semester Available all semesters  
Pre-Requisite DS36210 , Access to a working rare books collection.  
Course delivery Other    
Assessment
Assessment TypeAssessment Length/DetailsProportion
Semester Assessment A quasi-facsimile transcription inc. catalogue entry and commentary (1500 word equivalent) - weighted 40% 
Semester Assessment Essay 2,500 words - weighted 60%   

Learning outcomes

On completion of this module, students should be able to:












Brief description

This is the second of two modules on rare-books librarianship. It provides a more detailed examination of aspects of the specialist field, looking in particular at the development of the printed book in continental Europe in the hand-press period (to approximately 1850) and examining involved in creating descriptive bibliographies and catalogues of early printed materials.
This module will enable students to consider the book as a physical object (typography, bindings, illustration, evidence of ownership) and to understandits place in the modern scholarly context.

Content

The geography of early printing; Elements of page layout in early printed books; Scholar printers of the Renaissance; Christopher Plantin, prince of printers, 1520(?)-1589; The rise of the publisher

Book binding; Management of a bindings collection; Book illustration; Some aids to identification of technique

What do we mean by "bibliography"? Bibliographies and catalogues; Edition, issue and state; Transcription; The collation formula; Ideal copy; Typographical analysis; Page measurements; Analysis of contents; Census of copies; Copy-specific information; Annotation and notes; Setting out a description

The study of handwriting; Provenance information

Types of rare-books catalogue; MARC cataloguing; Copy-specific details; Retro-conversion; Book-in-hand cataloguing; form-based cataloguing; on-line cataloguing; Derived cataloguing; Indexing issues

Policy issues; Describing non-book collections; Museum objects; Photographic materials; Scrapbooks and albums; Printed ephemera; Newspapers; Maps; Sound recordings

Aims

The module aims to allow student who have successfully completed module DS36210 Introduction to Rare Books Librarianship to:

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6