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

[Staci Ross]

Hi Deborah,

I can't express enough how grateful I am for your guidance and candor
during and after Rare Books Cataloging. I still apply what I learned in
L-30 and often refer to my binder of notes when working with our rare
medical collections. Best wishes on this next chapter, and I hope your
summers continue to be full of friends and learning. Congrats to Amy and
Jessica for taking on full instruction of the course! Such an interesting
time to work in rare books cataloging!

Best,
Staci

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> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:22:31 +0000
> From: "Deborah J. Leslie" <DJLeslie at FOLGER.edu>
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> Cc: "Perrings, Laura (lep9w)" <laura.perrings at virginia.edu>, Amy Tims
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> To my friends and colleagues in the rare materials cataloging community,
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> 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
>
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> Deborah J. Leslie [cid:07d6671a-194a-47b5-9420-c259608cc943]  | M.A.,
> M.L.S. | Senior Cataloger | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol
> St., SE, Washington, DC 20003 | djleslie at folger.edu<mailto:
> djleslie at folger.edu> | www.folger.edu<http://www.folger.edu/> | Opinions
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Staci Ross
Metadata Librarian (Special Collections)
Virginia Commonwealth University
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