Antiquarian Book School Foundation

Founded in 2007, the Antiquarian Book School Foundation, a Minnesota corporation, is an independent, non-profit, and tax-exempt institution, operated exclusively for educational purposes, without monetary gain or profit to its directors or officers.

The Foundation incorporates the mission  of the Out-of-Print and Antiquarian Book Market Seminar (founded in 1977), which later came to be known as the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and subsequently as the CABS-Minnesota antiquarian book seminar. The Foundation also administers the Diverse Voices Fellowship.

The Foundation has a mission to build collaborative networks and offer professional education to a diverse community of booksellers, librarians, archivists and collectors.

The Foundation also supports, promotes and promulgates interest in and appreciation of all aspects of antiquarian, used, and out-of-print books and other printed materials, as well as the antiquarian book trade, together with its attendant media, including electronic resources, and on-line databases.

This Foundation seeks to expand the knowledge of the culture of books, printing, book illustration, bookbinding, publishing, and book collecting to a broad base of book professionals, including booksellers, teachers, librarians, collectors, and those of the general public looking to be so informed.

The Foundation and the CABS-Minnesota antiquarian book seminar promote professional and ethical standards in the antiquarian, used, and out-of-print book trade, and its established usages and customs.

The Foundation also cooperates with other non-profit organizations which serve similar aims and purposes.