(Belated) good news, or what I will be blogging about in August 2004
December 7th, 2003
Last month, in all of the busyness and distraction, I forgot to post some really good news. In November, I was awarded a James Davis Scholarship for Rare Book School for the upcoming year.
Today I was checking my e-mail inbox for snow-related cancellations, and I was surprised and a little embarrassed to see my name in the list of Davis Scholars on both the ExLibris listserv and SHARP-L. Most people, I suppose, take great pride in such things; I feel honored (and happy) but terribly self-conscious about it.
At any rate, this means that next August (unlike last August) I will be in Charlottesville (most likely) for the Introduction to Descriptive Bibliography (aka DesBib) course. Maybe, while I am on vacation this month, I will start re-reading the texts for the course.
[By the way, there are many new courses listed this year for RBS: Donors and Libraries (with Susan M. Allen and William P. Barlow Jr.), History of European Handwriting (with Nicolas Barker), Type, Lettering, and Calligraphy, 1830-1940 (with James Mosley), and Seminar in Book Illustration Processes (with Terry Belanger). See the online course bulletin or the mailing list links above for more information.]
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1. Amanda | December 9th, 2003 at 6:04 am
This is so exciting! Congratulations!
2. Vernica | December 9th, 2003 at 10:10 pm
Thanks, Amanda! Although it may not have come across in my rather self-effacing post, I am very happy about this scholarship and really looking forward to attending RBS.