Seminar Information

Please direct any questions about seminar information to:
Kathy Lindeman, Local Coordinator
Colorado Springs: (719) 473-6634
or E-mail to: Kathy Lindeman

FEES:

The fee for the Antiquarian Book Seminar is $1,195.00 and includes all instructional materials, Sunday evening reception, Monday picnic, Friday farewell dinner, transportation to off-site sessions, and daily breaks.

Early registrants can save $100. Sign up before May 1, 2008, and pay only $1,095.

REGISTRATION:

There are two ways to register:
1) Complete our on-line registration form and submit it together with your credit card information or your check for the $350.00 deposit by July 13th, 2008; or,
2) print-out the registration form, complete it and mail it with a $350.00 deposit (check payable to Book Seminars) by July 13th, 2008 to:

Book Seminars
Kathy Lindeman, Registration Coordinator
1604 East Yampa Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80909

The deposit is refundable only if written notice is received 30 days prior to the Seminar. The balance is payable on or before August 3rd, 2008. If you pay your balance during campus registration on August 3rd, you may use a check, VISA or Master Card.

Book Seminars reserves the right to cancel the Seminar for any reason before July 13, 2008. If the Seminar is canceled before that date, the liability of Book Seminars and its organizers to a potential participant shall be strictly limited to the refund of deposit previously received from that participant.

LOCATION:

The Seminar is held at The Colorado College in beautiful Colorado Springs, in the shadow of Pikes Peak. Sessions are convened in the Worner Campus Center-Gaylord Hall.
The address of the college is: 14 E Cache La Poudre, Colorado Springs, CO 80903. Temperatures in Colorado are moderate in the summer, with afternoon showers likely.
Dress for the week is casual.


AIRPORT TRANSPORTATION:

There is shuttle transportation available from both Colorado Springs Airport and Denver International Airport to Colorado College.
More detailed information can be found here.


HOUSING:
The Colorado College will provide housing in a former small, recently
renovated motel with private baths and air conditioning. The motel is
within easy walking distance of the Worner Campus Center.


ADDED ATTRACTIONS!

The Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association, is scheduled to coincide with the Seminar each summer, and will be held in Denver on August 1 and 2, 2008. For more information on the book fair, visit RMABA.org.

Local book dealers are active supporters of the Seminar, offering special discounts and extended hours to attendees during the week of the Seminar. Colorado Springs provides a plethora of fine restaurants and attractions for Seminar attendees and their families. For more information on local opportunities, visit coloradosprings.com or contact the Local Coordinator.

HISTORY:

The Antiquarian Book Market Seminar began in 1978 as the result of a collaboration between Dean Margaret Goggin of the Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management at the University of Denver and Jacob L. Chernofsky, editor and publisher of AB Bookmans’ Weekly.

Goggin, who had a keen interest in both the worlds of librarianship and antiquarian bookselling, had been dismayed at how little librarians and book dealers knew of each other’s methods, procedures and problems. She conceived of the seminar as a meeting ground and education tool for both.

A low-key, trial first session was held in 1978 at the Denver school to float some of the ideas that Goggin and Chernofsky had. The first full-fledged seminar was held in August of 1979 and was announced in its brochure as, “An intense program of study designed to provide the opportunity for acquisitions librarians, collection developers, and beginning rare book librarians to study the out-of-print and rare materials market with the leading specialists in the field.

Demand for the seminar proved to be great. Because of space limitations and the desire to maintain a high faculty to student ratio, enrollment was limited to 100 persons and there was usually a waiting list. The seminar continued to be held at the University of Denver and was universally known as “the Denver Seminar”. The seminar was such a success in both the library and book dealer worlds that for a short time two seminars a year were held, with the additional seminar held at the University of Florida in Gainsville.

When the University of Denver discontinued its Graduate Library School, the seminar found a temporary home in nearby Golden, CO and then at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, where it has been located for the past several years.

After the retirements of Dean Goggin and Jake Chernofsky, the Seminar was purchased by a group of booksellers who had been faculty regulars for many years. Given the enormous changes in the antiquarian book world since 1978, the curriculum has also changed, with increasing emphasis on the realities of bookselling in the electronic age.

More than 2000 students have graduated from the seminar since its inception, many of whom have gone on to become prominent members of the bookselling community.

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