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Since 1972, the Book Arts Press and Rare Book School have offered more than 600 public lectures on a wide variety of bibliographical topics.

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Kirshenbaum, Sandra - "Ten Years of 'Fine Print'" (30 January 1984)

Lecture 141 (30 January 1984)

Sep 08, 2015•47 min

McKenzie, D.F. - "Orality, Literacy, and Print in Early New Zealand" (23 January 1984)

Lecture 140 (23 January 1984)

Sep 08, 2015•1 hr 10 min

Barker, Nicolas - "Conservation—And After" (1 August 1983)

Lecture 131 (1 August 1983)

Sep 08, 2015•53 min

Scheide, William - "A Feasibility Study and Some Tavern Gossip in 15th-Century Mainz" (21 July 1983)

Lecture 127 (21 July 1983)

Sep 08, 2015•42 min

Spawn, Willman - "In Which Cities Were They Bound?" (20 July 1983)

Lecture 126 (20 July 1983). Full title "In Which Cities Were They Bound? The Identification of 18th-Century American Bookbinding"

Sep 08, 2015•23 min

Bidwell, John - "Hard Times at the Brandywine Papermill, 1787–1838" (14 July 1983)

Lecture 125 (14 July 1983)

Aug 31, 2015•45 min

Wolf, Edwin, 2nd - "Rare Book and Research Libraries: Creating an Image" (12 July 1983)

Lecture 124 (12 July 1983)

Aug 31, 2015•45 min

Jenkins, John H. - "'The Farmer and the Cowboy Should be Friends'" (11 April 1983)

Lecture 121 (11 April 1983). Full title "‘The Farmer and the Cowboy Should be Friends': What Rare Book Librarians Should Know about the Antiquarian Book Trade"

Aug 31, 2015•36 min

Adams, Thomas R. - "Twenty-Five Years at the John Carter Brown Library" (24 March 1983)

Lecture 118 (24 March 1983)

Aug 31, 2015•56 min

Tanenbaum, Charles - "A Collector’s View of Rare Book Libraries" (21 March 1983)

Lecture 117 (21 March 1983)

Aug 31, 2015•41 min

Jolliffe, John - "Stone Age Thinking at the Speed of Light: AACR2, MARC, and Other Dinosaurs"

Lecture 116 (17 March 1983)

Aug 31, 2015•45 min

Kernan, Alvin - "Publishing and the Literary Text in the Age of Johnson" (10 March 1983)

Lecture 115 (10 March 1983)

Aug 31, 2015•51 min

Gingerich, Owen - "Copernicus’ 'De Revolutionibus': A Study in Renaissance Scientific Printing"

Lecture 102 (11 October 1982)

Aug 31, 2015•1 hr 7 min

Rostenberg, Leona - "The Library of Robert Hooke" (12 April 1982)

Lecture 93 (12 April 1982). Full title "The Library of Robert Hooke: A Microcosm of the Restoration Book Trade"

Aug 31, 2015•59 min

Feather, John - "On NOT Being in London" (31 March 1982)

Lecture 91 (31 March 1982). Full title "On NOT Being in London: The English 18th-Century Provincial Book Trade"

Aug 05, 2015•53 min

McKitterick, David - "Deaccessioning at Cambridge in the 1860s"(8 March 1982)

Lecture 89 (8 March 1982). Full title: "Deaccessioning at Cambridge in the 1860s: Henry Stevens of Vermont and His American Customers"

Aug 05, 2015•54 min

Barker, Nicolas - "From Codex to Silicon Chip" (20 November 1980)

Lecture 70 (20 November 1980). Full title "From Codex to Silicon Chip: An Overview of Developments in Communications from the 4th to the 21st Centuries, or So"

Aug 05, 2015•49 min

Pollard, Graham - "The Scope of Bibliography" (27 November 1973)

Lecture 8 (27 November 1973)

Aug 05, 2015•55 min

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