Terry Belanger

Terry Belanger
Terry Belanger
Born1941 (age 84–85)
EducationHaverford College
Columbia University
OccupationUniversity Professor Emeritus (University of Virginia)
Known forFounder of Rare Book School
AwardsAmerican Printing History Association Individual Award (1994)
MacArthur Fellow (2005)

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.