“This development comes at a time of renewed interest in special collections,” said Beverly P. Lynch, the school’s founding director, “coupled with a growing need for training in the field of rare books and manuscripts.”
Supported by a $109,147 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded in June, as well as academic libraries and antiquarian booksellers in southern California, the school will initially offer courses in rare book cataloging, special collections librarianship, the book in the West, descriptive bibliography, and book illustration processes to 1900.
Posted December 16, 2005.