Promoting Europe's cultural heritage in manuscript and print
CERL seeks to share resources and expertise between research libraries with a view to improving access to, as well as exploitation and preservation of the European printed heritage in the hand-press period (up to c. 1830). The organisation was formed in 1992 on the initiative of research libraries in many European countries and legally came into being in June 1994. Welcome to our site.
HPB Database The Heritage of the Printed Book in Europe, c. 1450 - c. 1830. A database of records from major European
and North American research libraries.
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CERL Thesaurus
Multi-lingual information about names of persons and places found in catalogues of books of the hand-press period.
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CERL Portal
Cross-searching of catalogues of European manuscript materials, with the option to search selected early-printed books databases.
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Publications
Includes the series of CERL Papers which record the contributions given at CERL‘s Annual Seminars.
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Seminars and Workshops
The Consortium holds annual international seminars and regular regional and national workshops.
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Provenance Information
Web pages about publications and web sites on provenance. The CERL Thesaurus links personal names to web-based catalogues containing books owned by them.
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This site is archived as part of the initiative of the UK Web Archiving Consortium
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, completes National Bibliography
The largest and longest-running project in the history of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the Short-Title Catalogue Netherlands, will be completed at the end of June 2009 after 27 years. The STCN gives an overview of all books printed in the Netherlands between 1540 and 1801 and of those published abroad in Dutch. The completion of the STCN will be celebrated with a symposium in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek on 25 June, where the new STCN website will be launched.
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The European Printed Heritage in Estonian Libraries, Thursday 18 June 2009
A Joint Seminar at the Academic Library of Tallinn University
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Summer School in the Study of Old Books, University of Zadar, Croatia,
28 September-2 October 2009
Recent developments in historical methods and epistemology, old book research, bibliographic information organisation, conservation and preservation; also practical introduction to old books collection management with contemporary approaches to digitisation.
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Book History Workshop, Lyon,
1-4 September 2009
For the seventh edition of its Book History Workshop, organised in collaboration with the Rare Book School (University of Virginia), the Lyon-based Institut d’histoire du livre is offering four advanced courses in the fields of book and printing history.
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Publication of CERL Papers VIII
Script, print and the internet: the early-modrn book and its readers, papers presented on 9 November 2007 at the CERL Seminar hosted by the Universitetsbibliotek, Uppsala, is now available.
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CERL selects a new Company Secretary
CERL is pleased to announce that Dr Cristina Dondi has been appointed as the Joint Secretary of the Consortium with effect from 1 March 2009.
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