/////\\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\///\\\/\ \ / \ Welcome to the SGML Newswire! \ / / \ To subscribe, send email to sgmlinfo@avalanche.com \ \ with body of message SUBSCRIBE 'your emailaddress' / / To unsubscribe, send message 'unsubscribe' \ \ To receive SGML FAQ, send message 'send FAQ' / / \ \ To receive a current table of contents, and / / instructions for ordering back issues, \ \ specify 'send toc' in the body of your / / message. Please also pass along info \ \ to interested colleagues. / / \ ////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\///\\\\/// VIRGINIA RARE BOOK SCHOOL: ========================== This is from the comp.text.sgml newsgroup: From: kat6b@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Kelly Tetterton) Subject: BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: RARE BOOK SCHOOL Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 04:49:54 GMT Please excuse any duplication. BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: RARE BOOK SCHOOL (RBS): Rare Book School is pleased to announce its schedule of courses for the summer of 1996, 23 five-day non-credit courses of bookish interest. The brochure and related documents are available at our Web site: poe.acc.virginia.edu/~oldbooks/rbs96/rbs96.html Participants of comp.text.sgml may be particularly interested in one of the courses being offered: WEEK TWO Monday 22 July - Friday 26 July 26 INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC TEXTS (Session I). An exploration of the research, preservation, and pedagogical uses for electronic texts. The course will center around the creation of a set of archival-quality etexts and digital images. Topics include: finding and evaluating existing etexts; SGML tagging and conversion (especially the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines and HTML); publishing on the World Wide Web; text analysis tools; creating an electronic text center; the management and use of on- line texts. See http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/rbs/rbs16-95.html for information about last year's course. Repeated in Week 4 (August 5-9). Instructor: David Seaman. (July 22-26) DAVID SEAMAN is the founding director of the nationally-known Electronic Text Center and on-line archive at the University of Virginia. He lectures and writes frequently on SGML, the Internet, and the creation and use of etexts in the humanities. **** BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: RARE BOOK SCHOOL (RBS) offers a collection of five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning rare books, manuscripts, and special collections. Students make a full-time commitment to any course they attend, from 8:30 am to 5 pm, Monday- Friday; most students also attend an informal dinner on the Sunday evening before their first class on Monday. In addition to the formal classes, there are early-evening public lectures and other events throughout the four weeks of RBS. The educational and professional pre-requisites for RBS courses vary. Some courses are primarily directed toward research librarians and archivists. Others are intended for academics, persons working in the antiquarian book trade, bookbinders and conservators, students of the history of books and printing, and others with an interest in the subjects being treated. The tuition for each five-day course is $565. Low-cost, air- conditioned dormitory housing will be offered on the historic central grounds of the University, and nearby hotel accommodation is readily available. Students are encouraged to take advantage of RBS's housing to arrive a few days before their course, or stay a few days later, in order to give themselves (and their families) a better chance to explore the Charlottesville area, which includes many sites of historic interest as well as various vacation attractions. For further information about any aspect of RBS write: Rare Book School, 114 Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2498 fax: 804/924-8824 email: biblio@virginia.edu phone: 804/924-8851 Prospective students for RBS courses are invited to consult the widely-distributed annual RBS Yearbooks, in which students' exhaustive evaluations of all RBS courses offered since 1989 have been published in their entirety. RBS was not held in 1992. Copies of the 1990, 1993, and 1994 RBS Yearbooks are in print and available postpaid for $10 (1990 and 1993) or $15 (1994). The 1995 RBS Yearbook is in the press, and will be available on about March 15th for $15. Copies of the 1989 and 1991 Yearbooks are out of print. All courses announced in the RBS brochure and ECD will in fact be held. There is no minimum number of students necessary for a course to run; RBS does not cancel courses. Electronic copies of the ECD and various other RBS documents can be accessed through our World Wide Web site: http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~oldbooks/ -- Kelly Tetterton, User Education/Networked Information Alderman Library, University of Virginia Phone: (804) 924-7702 Fax: (804) 924-1431 Email: kat6b@virginia.edu URL: http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~kat6b ////\\\\////\\\\///\\\///\\\\////\\\\///\\\\///\\\\///\ \ / / SGML NEWSWIRE LIST MANAGER \ \ Sue Martin-Gamble, Interleaf / \ 4999 Pearl East Circle, Ste 100 \ / Boulder, Colorado 80301 / \ VOX 303/449-5032 x 109 \ / FAX 303/449-3246 / \ sue@avalanche.com \ / / ////\/\/\/\/\//////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\//\\\\\/