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. 1455 - 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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Material Evidence in Incunabula
MEI is a database designed to record and search the material evidence of 15th century printed books.
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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
Can You Help? for provenance queries. Bibliography of provenance sources. Records for book owners in the CERL Thesaurus.
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This site is archived as part of the initiative of the UK Web Archiving Consortium
Job opportunities
At the British Library: Chief Executive, and for Europeana: European PR Campaign Coordinator and PR and Editorial Officer ; at UCL, London: Rare Books Librarian: Outreach and Promotion; at OCLC, Leiden Research Scientist and Metadata Specialist; at The European Library, The Hague, a Marketing Manager and a Java Developer.
Powerpoint presentation on the Heritage of the Printed Book database
Jana Hentschke presented the latest HPB developments and data loads to colleagues during a Workshop on Tools for Provenance and Bibliographical Research, at Glasgow University Library on 24 November last year. Her powerpoint presentation is now available.
CERL Newsletter - December 2011
The latest CERL Newsletter is now available. Read more...
Registration now open: Ambassadors of the Book, Antwerp, 1-2 February 2012
Papers on the competences that librarians in charge of special (or heritage) collections should acquire during their training, and how library training programmes can teach these competences.
Programme and registration details.
CERL Papers XI: Virtual visits to lost libraries: reconstruction of and access to dispersed collections
The eleven papers presented at the CERL Seminar hosted by the Royal Library of Denmark in November 2010 have been published.
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