{"id":2359,"date":"2011-03-03T16:17:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T22:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2011-03-03T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T22:17:34","slug":"hirst-to-attend-rare-book-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2011\/03\/03\/hirst-to-attend-rare-book-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Hirst to Attend Rare Book School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that Donna Hirst, curator of the John Martin Rare Book Room, has been accepted to the very prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rarebookschool.org\/\">Rare Book School<\/a> located on the University of Virginia campus. \u00a0She will attend the week-long class, <em>Printed Books to 1800: Description &amp; Analysis<\/em>, where she will learn more about the physical aspects of books from the hand-press period. The course will cover such things as the identification and description of paper (laid <em>vs.<\/em> wove, watermarks); typography (type sizes and styles); letterpress printing; illustration processes (relief, intaglio); binding materials (leather, parchment, paper) and styles (dating and localizing bindings. The instructor, David Whitesell, is Curator of Books at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanantiquarian.org\/\">American Antiquarian Society<\/a>. Previously, he\u00a0was rare book cataloger at the <a href=\"http:\/\/hcl.harvard.edu\/libraries\/houghton\/\">Houghton Library<\/a>, Harvard University and was\u00a0in the antiquarian book trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that Donna Hirst, curator of the John Martin Rare Book Room, has been accepted to the very prestigious Rare Book School located on the University of Virginia campus. \u00a0She will attend the week-long class, Printed Books to 1800: Description &amp; Analysis, where she will learn more about the physical aspects<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2011\/03\/03\/hirst-to-attend-rare-book-school\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Hirst to Attend Rare Book School&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}