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

[Wheaton, Mary]

Deborah,

Like so many others, I am indebted to your wealth of knowledge and willingness to share it. Just this last week, I was poring over the materials from your class as I tried to figure my way around three volumes of bound English almanacs. And, as I believe I told you last summer, if you ever decided to teach your Advanced Rare Book Cataloging course at RBS again, I would be the first to sign up!

Many, many thanks and wishing you all the best.

Mary



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Mary F. Wheaton

Special Formats Cataloging Librarian

Boatwright Memorial Library

261 Richmond Way

University of Richmond, VA 23173



email: mwheaton at richmond.edu<mailto:mwheaton at richmond.edu>

phone: (804) 289-8845

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

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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


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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 her own

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