[DCRM-L] Rare Book Cataloging at Rare Book School

[Colleen Fedewa]

It was a great class! I really appreciated your knowledge and teaching
style.
Thanks for everything,
Colleen Fedewa



On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 1:22 PM Deborah J. Leslie via DCRM-L <
dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu> wrote:

> To my friends and colleagues in the rare materials cataloging community,
>
> Last week, I taught my final session of *Rare Book Cataloging*
> <https://rarebookschool.org/courses/details/l30/> (L-30, *Rare Book
> School at the University of Virginia*
> <https://rarebookschool.org/courses/details/l30/>). Teaching nearly 500
> students in over 40 classes between 1998 and 2026 has been an absolute
> labor of love and a source of both inspiration and joy. I am immensely
> proud of my legacy, and immensely proud of the many accomplishments and
> contributions made by former students to their institutions and to the
> profession.
> By this time next year, the Library of Congress will have fully
> implemented the Official RDA Toolkit, and the RDA Steering Committee will
> have deprecated Original RDA. There will be no deprecation of the DCRM
> suite of manuals. Nevertheless, the switchover signals that it's time for *Descriptive
> Cataloging of Rare Materials (RDA Edition)* <https://bsc.rbms.info/> to
> come into its own, which in turn signals that it's time for L-30 to be
> renovated with fresh minds and energy—minds and energy that are firmly
> grounded in DCRMR and in the rare book cataloging community.
> I have complete confidence in my L-30 successors, Amy Tims and Jessica
> Grzegorski, and am delighted that such capable rare book catalogers and
> teachers have accepted the challenge of continuing to develop sleek rare
> book catalogers. Amy and Jessica have been assisting for the past two
> years, and have both been deep in the DCRMR editorial weeds. Future RBS
> L-30 students will be in very good hands indeed!
> All my best,
> Deborah
>
> _____________________________
> Deborah J. Leslie  | M.A., M.L.S. | Senior Cataloger | Folger Shakespeare
> Library | 201 East Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003 |
> djleslie at folger.edu | www.folger.edu | Opinions her own
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