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[We share the following announcement from Mike Widener, Rare Book Librarian at the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School. Applications are due Feb.17, 2020. Here are some highlights from the 2018 course.]
Rare Book School is now accepting applications for admission
to “Law Books: History & Connoisseurship,” which Ryan Greenwood and Mike Widener will
teach in the Yale Law Library June 7-12, 2020. Enrollment is limited to 12
students. The course description, advance reading list, evaluations from
previous students, and a link to the application site are here:
Information on the application process, program costs, etc.,
is available here:
This intensive, week-long course is about building focused,
interesting, and useful collections of historical materials in Anglo-American,
European, and Latin American law. It is aimed at individuals and librarians who
collect historical legal materials, and the book dealers who supply them, as
well as librarians developing collections from existing holdings. Lively
discussion and extensive hands-on activities are hallmarks of the course.
Mike writes: This will be my seventh time teaching the course. It will
the second time for my co-instructor Ryan Greenwood, Curator of Rare Books and
Special Collections at the University of Minnesota Law Library. Due to my
retirement from Yale in April 2021, future offerings of this course are
uncertain. If you have wanted to take the course, and haven't yet attended, now
is the time. I can answer questions about the content of the course. All
questions about applications, registration, tuition, and housing should be
directed to the Rare Book School staff, at rbsprograms@virginia.edu.
MIKE WIDENER
Rare Book Librarian
Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School
127 Wall Street, New Haven CT 06511-8918
Phone: (203) 432-4494
Email: mike.widener@yale.edu
