Module Information
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Bibliographical exercise | 40% |
| Semester Assessment | Essay ( circa 2,000 words) | 60% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Submission of supplementary coursework for failed course elements of coursework in line with the with the learing outcomes of the original assignment. | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
* Discuss the development of the printed book and some of its major participants in continental Europe.
* Analyse the principal physical characteristics of page layout in a printed book of the hand-press period.
* Identify the principal method of book binding and problems of their conservation.
* Explain the different methods of book illustration.
* Outline the purposes and techniques of descriptive bibliography.
* Write a bibliographical description of a printed book.
* Transcribe a simple handwritten text of the early modern period.
* Outline the use of provenance evidence in book history.
* Describe the different types of catalogues and bibliographies used in rare books collections.
- Create appropriate MARC catalogue records for a collection of early printed books by re-using existing machine-readable records or creating new ones.
* Examine the place of the rare book in the contemporary academic and commercial context.
Brief description
This module will enable students to consider the book as a physical object (typography, bindings, illustration, evidence of ownership) and to understand its place in the modern scholarly context.
Content
Unit Two: The Look of the book: binding and illustration
Unit Three: Descriptive bibliography
Unit Four: Traces of Ownership
Unit Five: Catalogues and cataloguing
Unit Six: Beyond the book
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | |
| Communication | Writing and presenting skills. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Implicitly, by building on materials from the introductory modules and development of skills within this module. |
| Information Technology | Use of web-based catalogues and databases; use of web based conference facilities. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Use of library working environment in activites and assignments in a specialist area of library and information studies. |
| Problem solving | Analysis and description of the physical make-up and appearance of early printed books. |
| Research skills | Several activies involve a researched follow-up taught examples. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Bibliographical analysis and description, rare books cataloguing, identification of engraving techniques, provenance research. |
| Team work |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7