[Libri] Belanger wins MacArthur prize

[Prof. James Wald (der Geist, der stets verneint)]

MacArthur Prizes, 2005:


Terry Belanger
Rare Book Preservationist
University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Age: 64


Terry Belanger is a historian, collector, and protector of one of  
humankind’s greatest inventions: the book. To support the study of  
the book’s long history, Belanger created a teaching and archive  
facility, the Rare Book School (RBS), in 1983 as part of Columbia  
University’s School of Library Service; in 1992, he moved it to its  
current home at the University of Virginia. The RBS functions as an  
independent, non-profit institute devoted to the histories of  
manuscripts, print, electronic text, and everything in between. It  
transcends the limitations of traditional degree programs by making  
its wide-ranging offerings available to a broad range of  
professionals interested in studying and preserving these cultural  
artifacts; historians, literary scholars, librarians, conservators,  
collectors, and book artists attend RBS courses each year. In the  
classroom, Belanger uses original tools and materials to provide  
students with hands-on experience and to emphasize the relationship  
between the physical and intellectual structure of the book. He  
assiduously collects items related to bookmaking, from the remains of  
incunabula (the first printed books of the fifteenth century) and  
their handwritten precursors to books demonstrating the range of  
bindings and structures, to samples of materials from which books  
have been constructed. With thousands of former students currently at  
work in the field and offshoots of his programs in California,  
France, Australia, and New Zealand, Belanger is making the world a  
more secure place for the irreplaceable legacy of the book.

Terry Belanger received a B.A. (1963) from Haverford College and an  
M.A. (1964) and Ph.D. (1970) from Columbia University. He was on the  
faculty of the School of Library Service at Columbia University  
(1971-1992), where he served as assistant dean (1980-86). He  
established the Book Arts Press (1971) at Columbia as a  
bibliographical laboratory for the training of rare book and special  
collections librarians and antiquarian booksellers. In 1983, he  
instituted the Rare Book School, also at Columbia. Belanger moved  
both the Book Arts Press and Rare Book School to the University of  
Virginia in 1992, where he now holds the position of University  
Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections.




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