Just back from CERL Manuscripts WG meeting at ZB Solothurn. With WG Chair @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social and ZB's Ian Holt, MSS experts from AT/CH/DE/DK/HU/IE/IT/LI/NL/NO/PL/SE/UKdiscussed standards/thesauri, HTR, training needs, relation with archivists/conservators, collaboration. Join us next time!

The Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database by CERL tracks copy-specific evidence in 15th-century books. Freely accessible and continually expanding through international collaboration. 🔎 Explore MEI: data.cerl.org/mei/_search

The CERL Provenance Working Group has just published its annual newsletter, with reports on projects and ongoing research, case studies, internships and fellowships, events and publications, contributed by colleagues all over Europe. www.cerl.org/collaboratio...

Registration is now open 📚 CERL Manuscript Librarians Working Group Conference Collections Across Repositories: Manuscripts and their Custodians 📍 Zentralbibliothek Solothurn, Switzerland 🏔️ 📅 10 March 2026 To attend, email: [email protected] #bookhistory #manuscripts

📢 Call for Papers | CERL Manuscript Librarians Working Group Collections Across Repositories: Manuscripts & Their Custodians 📅 10 Mar 2026 | 📍 Solothurn 🇨🇭 20-min papers & 45-min roundtables welcome. 🗓 Deadline: 30 Jan 2026 📧 [email protected]

⭐ New CERL Newsletter out now (Dec 2025) Featuring a letter from Chair Claudia Fabian, community news, awards & grants, the Polish Provenance Database, recent seminars, upcoming bookbinding talks, and new Board members & libraries. 👉 www.cerl.org/_media/publi...

⭐ New CERL blog post “Studying the ‘life’ of Spanish incunabula at Huntington Library” by Iván Pérez Marinas, CERL Grant recipient 2025. Based on a 4-week research stay co-financed by The Huntington Library. 👉 cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/c...

🎉 Proud to announce that the Polish Provenance Database (PPD) has launched! Focused on post-1500 books in Polish collections, it’s a collaboration of 17 libraries & CERL, led by the University Library of Warsaw. Work and testing of PPD in progress. Search PPD: data.cerl.org/polish-prove... 👏

📣 Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for a successful second seminar on Founding Collections in the 21st Century at @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social. The recordings are available on YouTube and the proceedings will be published! #bookhistory

Had a fantastic day today @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social listening to colleagues from across Europe present on their founding collections for the @cerl-community.bsky.social annual seminar. Thanks to all involved!

Join us in London on 5 Dec 2025 for CERL’s Seminar at Guildhall Library (guildhalllibrary.bsky.social)! Explore how Europe’s founding library collections continue to shape research today. With support from @abararebooks.bsky.social! Register: [email protected] Livestream coming soon!

📢 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 online on Thursday 13 Nov for the 5th CERL Provenance Seminar! 16:00–16:30 Marina Ruiz Fargas & Laia Navarro de Llobet (Univ. of Barcelona) 16:30–17:00 Mira Krall (Austrian National Library) 17:00 Discussion Register via [email protected] to receive link! #bookhistory

Claude D. Conter, director of the BnL, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (@cerl-community.bsky.social) at the Annual General Meeting on 22 October 2025. Photo: © Brainplug

Gathering in Edinburgh for CERL’s 2025 AGM 📚 Grateful to the National Library of Scotland (@natlibscot.bsky.social) for hosting us, and to everyone helping connect libraries and early printed collections across borders 🌍 📸 Callum Ollason

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...

Last week, CERL held its annual seminar in Edinburgh, exploring founding collections in the 21st century 📚✨ Huge thanks to the National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social for hosting us so warmly! 🏛️ #CERL #Libraries #BookHistory

📚 New on the CERL Blog! Librarian Tomás de Brito from CERL member Ediciones Ampersand in Buenos Aires offers insights into the history of the house's library - a space that bridges publishing, scholarship, and bibliophilia. 🖋️ Full blog post here: cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/e...

José Luis Bueren Gómez-Acebo (Biblioteca Nacional de España) presents on the CERL Security Network at the EGATTT session during ICA 2025 Barcelona — join online today, there’s still time to register! #CERL #EGATTT #ICA2025 #bookhistory Get zoom-link here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Just a reminder to register for the CERL Seminar 2025 - “Engaging with Founding Collections in the 21st Century” - on 21 Oct at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free to attend (registration required): [email protected] #bookhistory

Speaking at the @cerl-community.bsky.social Collection Security Summer School in @nlireland.bsky.social and glad to see this 🙂👇👇 I hope nobody lights that fire!🔥

For the past month RIA Library has been delighted to welcome Madeline Birnbaum, Assistant Archivist at the Boston University School of Theology Library, to the Reading Room. Madeleine was awarded a @cerl-community.bsky.social grant to undertake provenance research into the Charles Haliday collection

🕊In Memoriam: Ulf Göranson We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our former Chairman, Ulf Göranson on 20 July 2025. His leadership, vision, and generosity have left a lasting impact, and we remember him with immense gratitude and respect. 🌿

📜 New on our blog: 900 years after Cosmas of Prague’s Chronicle of the Czechs, the National Library marks the anniversary with #Cosmas900 (24 Sept–24 Oct 2025), uniting manuscripts from across Europe. Read: cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/c... #CzechHistory #Manuscripts #CulturalHeritage

🕰️ How would you draw time? That’s what kids were asked at Lambeth Palace Library’s workshop tied to the Unfolding Time exhibition. Read in our latest CERL blog post how this creative outreach brought medieval calendars to life for 200+ London pupils. 🔗 cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/z...

As part of our #UnfoldingTime exhibition, we brought the fun of medieval concertina-fold almanacs to over 200 children in schools and public libraries! 📜✨ Discover how our Zigzag Calendar Workshops turned these tricky books into a fun activity for kids by reading the latest CERL blog post 👇

Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB) – unified access to early European printed works (c.1455–1830) from major European and North American libraries. Open access, with growing links to digitised copies. Explore via: www.cerl.org/resources/hp...

📚 ‘Your Library is Your Portrait’ CERL Seminar 2025 🗓️ 21 Oct | 📍 Edinburgh How do founding collections shape library identity today? Join us for talks on legacy, reinterpretation & change in major research libraries. 🔗 www.cerl.org/services/sem... #CERL2025 #FoundingCollections #LibraryHistory

Join us in Dublin, 10–12 Sept 2025 for the CERL Collection Security Summer School! 🎤 Talks, tours, workshops & more 📍 Trinity College & National Library of Ireland 💶 Fee: €95 (incl. lunches & reception) ✉️ Register: [email protected] Programme: www.cerl.org/collaboratio...

On 26-27 June, we gathered at KBR for the conference “Mapping Knowledge”! 📚 14 countries, 20 institutions, and a rich dialogue on the future of Retrospective National Bibliographies. Thanks to KBR and STCV for making it happen!

Happy birthday to Short Title Catalogue Flanders! Heleen Wyffels opens the @cerl-community.bsky.social conference on mapping Knowledge at Royal Library in Brussels #25yearsSTCV

Back at @cerl-community.bsky.social conference in beautiful Brussels (after a small hiccup this morning). In time for paper by Alyssa Steiner on Incunabula Short Title Catalogue #bookhistory

Marian Lefferts @cerl-community.bsky.social presented the volume Never Finished to Heleen Wyffels and Jan Pauwels #bibliography #bookhistory

Take a look at our latest blogpost on the democratization of library heritage collections: cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/t...

📢 Register now! Join us in Dublin for the CERL Collection Security Summer School 📅 10–12 Sept 2025 🏛️ Trinity College Library & National Library of Ireland 💶 €95 (inc. lunch, coffee, drinks reception) Open to all working with or interested in cultural heritage. 📧 Register: [email protected]

At the Anna Lindh Foundation Forum 2025 in Tirana, in a session co-organised with CERL, experts emphasized the crucial yet often underappreciated role of libraries as hubs for intercultural dialogue, inclusive research, and the advancement of open science. #LibrariesMatter

🎉 Welcome Ediciones Ampersand, CERL’s first South American Special Member! 🇦🇷📚 Based in Buenos Aires, they are a publishing house with a library dedicated to the practices, trades, and arts linked to books. Excited for what’s ahead! #CERL #EdicionesAmpersand #BookHistory

We're happy to be part of the Anna Lindh Forum 2025 in Tirana on 18 June! CERL will be co-hosting a session on how libraries can spark cultural dialogue and preserve shared heritage across the Euro-Med. 🌍 Hope to see some of you there! 🔗 alf.website/en/alforum-d...

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!