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A data hub & scholarly network on historic printed books & manuscripts. www.cerl.org
📢 New on our YouTube channel: Maria Ruiz Fargas & Laia Navarro de Llobet explore cataloguing provenance at UB’s CRAI Rare Book & Manuscript Library. 🎥 Watch:
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Cataloguing Provenance at CRAI Library | Maria Ruiz Fargas & Laia Navarro de Llobet
YouTube video by CERL – Consortium of European Research Libraries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlnNQqEJZMM
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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!
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Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg
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Claude D. Conter, director of the BnL, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (
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) at the Annual General Meeting on 22 October 2025. Photo: © Brainplug
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Gathering in Edinburgh for CERL’s 2025 AGM 📚 Grateful to the National Library of Scotland (
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Join us for this hybrid event on Founding Collections, taking place on 5 December 2025 and hosted by the
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Programme and registration details on
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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
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20 days ago
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📚 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...
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Ediciones Ampersand and its library: an insight into the core of our Collections
By Tomás de Brito, Ampersand In June 2025, Ediciones Ampersand became the first special member from South America to join the CERL community. We seize this opportunity to introduce ourselves throug…
https://cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/ediciones-ampersand-and-its-library-an-insight-into-the-core-of-our-collections/
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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
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: How to Prevent Thefts and Illegal Trafficking of Documentary Heritage. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
-️ Date: 27 October 2025 - Time: 13:00 – 17:30 (CET) - Venue: CSIC – Residència d’Investigadors, C/ Hospital, 64, 08001 Barcelona - Organizer: EGATTT – Expert Group Against Theft, Trafficking and Tamp...
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ki4uyEQCSsubXmg-GrB8ow#/registration
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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]
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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
2 months ago
Speaking at the
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Collection Security Summer School in
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and glad to see this 🙂👇👇 I hope nobody lights that fire!🔥
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Royal Irish Academy
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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
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grant to undertake provenance research into the Charles Haliday collection
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🕊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. 🌿
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📜 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
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Cosmas’ Chronicle and his sources – towards an exhibition
By Tomáš Klimek, National Library of the Czech Republic This year marks the 900th anniversary of the death of the first Czech chronicler, Cosmas, who served as dean of the Prague chapter and died i…
https://cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/cosmas-chronicle-and-his-sources-towards-an-exhibition/
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🕰️ 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...
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Lambeth Palace Library
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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 👇
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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...
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📚 ‘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
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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...
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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!
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Nina Lamal
5 months ago
Happy birthday to Short Title Catalogue Flanders! Heleen Wyffels opens the
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conference on mapping Knowledge at Royal Library in Brussels
#25yearsSTCV
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Nina Lamal
5 months ago
Back at
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conference in beautiful Brussels (after a small hiccup this morning). In time for paper by Alyssa Steiner on Incunabula Short Title Catalogue
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Marian Lefferts
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presented the volume Never Finished to Heleen Wyffels and Jan Pauwels
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Take a look at our latest blogpost on the democratization of library heritage collections:
cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/t...
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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 Bookbindi…
https://cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/the-democratization-of-library-heritage-collections/
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📢 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:
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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
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🎉 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
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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! 🔗
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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
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Supporting Europe's written heritage [CERL]
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