Terry Belanger
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"Terry Belanger" is the founding director of Rare Book School (RBS), an institute concerned with education for the history of books and printing, and with rare books and special collections librarianship. He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia (UVa), where RBS has its home base. Between 1972 and 1992, he devised and ran a master's program for the training of rare book librarians and antiquarian booksellers at the Columbia University School of Library Service. He is a 2005 MacArthur Fellow.

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We must not deprive the future of the past.

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I run the courses and try to get the best people in the world to teach them, ... We get the best students in the world on the other side of the table.

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I think that all of us have a sentimental attachment to books.

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The MacArthur is enabling my field in a very real way, ... This is a pretty small operation and it's going to make a difference.

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Making the world a more secure place for the irreplaceable legacy of the book.

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