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So I just read student evaluations for The History of the Book in the Americas and Beyond #JCBBookHistory and I'm so pleased that the students felt like they benefitted from the course. But it's bittersweet because I don't know when (if?) I'll get to work with undergrads again!
I wanted to share some things I learned about teaching book history in special collections. I should say this was a really unusual class: a small and very thoughtful group of students, embedded in a rare books library, and co-instructed by the library director and curator.
Lesson 1: fewer (and slower) is better
Guest speakers Aaron Hyman and Dana Leibsohn gave the students 90 minutes to work with two books: Thomas Harriot's 'Briefe and True Report' (Frankfurt, 1590) and a facsimile of the Codex Boturini (1/3)
Guest speakers Aaron Hyman and Dana Leibsohn gave the students 90 minutes to work with two books: Thomas Harriot's 'Briefe and True Report' (Frankfurt, 1590) and a facsimile of the Codex Boturini (1/3)
