The Atlas of Early Printing has a new URL at the Folger. 📜 #BookHistory atlas.folger.edu

Applications close soon for an extraordinary PhD placement opportunity supporting the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest. Apply by Monday 6 April. Find out more here: link.bl.uk/dnv

Important advice on how to improve readers' experience by restructuring and refining information on your Special Collections webpage, by Janna Freiling

CERL Internships 2025 – Museum Plantin-Moretus By Laura Semlič Thanks to the support of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL), I had the exciting opportunity to spend nearly five months at the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp, working on their collection of incunables. The first…

Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library today played host to students from University of Stirling looking at early modern printing & binding, led by Dr Kelsey Jackson Williams (Associate Professor in English Studies at University of Stirling & Director of Pathfoot Press

JOB ALERT! 📜📚 Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin? apply.workable.com/middleburyco...

TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

CERL Internships 2025 – Blickling Hall, National Trust By Carmen Oanea, PhD student in Book History at the Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania My name is Carmen Oanea and I am a PhD student in Book History at the Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University,…

CERL internships 2025 – Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, Ireland Notes on the Provenance of the Haliday Pamphlet and Tract Collections By Madeline Birnbaum, Assistant Archivist at the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston, Massachusetts. For four weeks in September of 2025, I was able…

Erasmus+ Traineeship grant 2025 – National Art Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum By Debora Sturzo Thanks to the mediation of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) and the support of the Erasmus+ Traineeship grant, I was able to carry out a three-month internship at the…

The British Library's new catalogue has a snappy URL for anyone wanting to search for medieval (western) manuscripts: searcharchives.bl.uk?f%5Bcollecti... Shelfmark searching only works with 'MS' between the collection name (which must be written in full, with the exception of 'Add') and number.

CERL Internships 2025: Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation by Jemima Bennett, PhD candidate – University of Kent/Bodleian Libraries For four weeks in September and October 2025, I had the amazing opportunity, as a CERL grantee, to work with the incunables at the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation in…

Presenting the Crossing Borders publication to former CERL Chairman, Dr Ann Matheson CERL was officially registered as a company on 24 June 1994. We celebrated our tenth anniversary at the National Library of Scotland in 2004 and were extremely pleased to be able to return to Edinburgh for our…

Join me @rarebookschool.bsky.social for an intensive week of Latin Paleography, June 1-5 in Charlottesville. Paleography doesn't have to be scary. Trust me...we'll have a blast! Application portal is now open. rarebookschool.org/courses/manu...

CERL internships 2025 – Huntington Library Studying the 'life' of Spanish incunabula at Huntington Library (San Marino, California) By Iván Pérez Marinas Huntington Library, San Marino, California Hola! My name is Iván Pérez Marinas, Curator of Manuscripts and Incunabula at the National Library of…

📢 New on our YouTube channel: Maria Ruiz Fargas & Laia Navarro de Llobet explore cataloguing provenance at UB’s CRAI Rare Book & Manuscript Library. 🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlnN... #bookhistory

Join us for this hybrid event on Founding Collections, taking place on 5 December 2025 and hosted by the @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social Programme and registration details on www.cerl.org/services/sem...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

In this latest blogpost at CERL, Tomás de Brito introduces Argentina's Ediciones Ampersand to fellow CERL members.

Really looking forward to the CERL annual seminar tomorrow. This year on Founding Collections and hosted by the wonderful National Library of Scotland. Such a joy to be back in Edinburgh, getting to hang out with friends old and new www.cerl.org/services/sem...

NOS/Nieuwsuur maakte vorige week een alarmistisch item over onvrije debatcultuur aan Nederlandse universiteiten. Mirko Tobias Schäfer en ik schreven er een opiniestuk over: 'Dat de academische vrijheid onder druk staat, komt niet door linkse cancelcultuur.' dub.uu.nl/nl/opinie/un...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Tomáš Klimek of the National Library of the Czech Republic marks the 900th anniversary of the death of the Czech chronicler Cosmas, with new research, an exhibition and a catalogue - all coming out this year.

Dr Sarah Griffin of Lambeth Palace Library describes their experiences with a workshop that introduced children to medieval folded calendars

The Democratization of Library Heritage Collections By Louise Amazan, Daryl Green & Garrelt Verhoeven (IFLA RBSC) Introduction On April 24th 2025 the Standing Committee for Rare Books & Special Collections (RBSC) of IFLA and CERL’s Bookbinding group joined together for a seminar at the…

CERL - Consortium of European Research Libraries - is now on Blue Sky. Our mission is to connect European book heritage with the world. Expect to see news on rare books, manuscripts and events from our community. www.cerl.org Give us a follow!

Where do European early imprints pop up? Attend this online seminar and find out! Please obtain your zoom link from [email protected]

The next CERL event is only a month away! I warmly invite you to come to KBR Brussels for Mapping Knowledge: Collaboration of Retrospective National Bibliograhies with research and heritage projects The programme is here: www.cerl.org/services/sem... We aim to publish the papers

I'm looking forward to discussing 'What can heritage do for society in the future?' at the '20 years of Sustainable Heritage at UCL' celebration on June 12 Some tickets still available www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

Electronic Legal Deposit materials are back online in 5 legal deposit reading rooms after the British Library cyberattack! Hurrah. But not in London yet. ICYDK, this encompasses vast swathes of modern digital texts including journal papers & books, & other media. Great to see it back!

The English Short Title Catalogue is back online #ESTC datb.cerl.org/estc

Very true. And it's a sector with high economic benefits. Universities UK report an economic impact of £158bn, or £265bn including the impact of international students. Every £1 of public money invested into UK universities generates £14 of economic benefit. www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/latest/news/...

Dissolution of the Office of Digital Humanities is confirmed. #DigitalHumanities

Explore Pigment Analysis in Historical Manuscripts Online. in this CERL blog post, Charlotte Denoël, Head of the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Service, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Manuscripts Department introduces the new database 'Fabrique de l' art.

We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

the loss of @neh-odh.bsky.social @nehgov.bsky.social and IMLS will undoubtedly impact humanities and digital humanities research and teaching for decades to come. Worse is the separation of the incredible staffs at those agencies who have decades of stewardship and leadership in cultural heritage.

IMLS is required by law to administer their grants to states and grants to tribal libraries programs. ALA shared the letter the IMLS Board sent to the Acting Director—and quotint chapter and verse of the U.S. Code that delineates their authorities. Dear Congress www.ala.org/sites/defaul...

Our latest blog post is by Dr Matthias Reif, Senior Librarian at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek on his experiences with the International Library Leaders Programme of the British Library.

An important call to arms for the study of languages, cultures and society.

A Monday morning good news story: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Want some fragmentary fun? Then join us at the London Palaeography Seminar next Tuesday, 11th March, to hear Dr Fran Alvarez on 'The Importance of being a Host' with new finds from Exeter and Salamanca. 5:30pm Senate House and online. Sign up here: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/impor...

Any idea what this is? Medieval bird trap? Type of bird? Duck? Date? Similar images? Bronze, gilt, 3.5 x 4.5 cm. Thanks! #medievalbluesky #birds

Who's up for a challenge? Some 16th-century Middle English handwriting is proving quite difficult to decipher, as part of our historical context study of CUL MS Dd.15.25, a 15th-century Horae. Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated! #Paleography #BookofHours #MiddleEnglish

"The most important group of medieval manuscripts from the Special Collections of the University Libraries of Leiden (UBL), the Codices Vossiani Latini, is now available in open access via the Digital Collections." www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

Wikipedia has good financial reserves and isn’t in danger, but they’re a donation-funded non-profit with no ads so throwing them $5 once a year would be nice. One group very much in need of donations is the Internet Archive, who do great work but truly are under threat. Throw them a few bucks too.

Wat is goed leiderschap? Een les van Johan Huizinga uit de jaren dertig: bij leiders moet je kijken naar ‘wat voor grondhouding, wat voor deugden verspreiden ze’, stelt historica Beatrice de Graaf. ‘Als je zo handelt, komt het goed met de gemeenschap’ #buitenhof

Call for papers for the Sammelband 15-16 San Daniele conference entitled « In uno volumine » that will be organised from 10 to 12 April 2025: sammelband.hypotheses.org/2267 At the bottom of the page there is a pdf that has the text of the call in English, French and Italian.

#Tip | Huizinga-lezing @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social, Wij zijn de tijden 💧Teruglezen: tijdschriftnu.nl/products/wij... 💧Terugkijken, Buitenhof-interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8u8... 📷 M. Shaw/ www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2024/... (PS: de 7 deugden zijn: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeven_d...)

Onfatsoen op onfatsoen: met naar commentaar van Albert Bos herhaalt het NOS journaal het fragment uit WNL op Zondag waar Pieter Omtzigt t even te kwaad kreeg en verzocht even te stoppen. Waarna de onfatsoenlijke Rick Nieman dat fragment triomfantelijk uitzond en niet knipte ( t was niet live)