==== 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.


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//**Services and Resources**//

[[:en:resources:hpb:main|{{  :en:press.jpg?80|A wooden common press}}]] **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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[[:en:resources:cerl_thesaurus:main|{{  :en:thesaurus2_small.png?80|CERL Thesaurus}}]]
**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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[[:en:resources:cerl_thesaurus:main|Read more...]]

[[:en:resources:cerl_portal|{{  en:bod_ms_lat_th_e_30.jpg?80|manuscript page}}]]
**CERL Portal**\\  
Cross-searching of catalogues of European manuscript materials, with the option to search selected early-printed books databases.\\  
[[:en:resources:cerl_portal|Read more...]]

[[:en:publications:main|{{  :en:cerl_vi_title_page211x300.jpg?80|CERL Papers VI}}]]
**Publications**\\   Includes the series of [[:en:publications:cerl_papers|CERL Papers]] which record the contributions given at CERL's Annual Seminars.\\  
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[[:en:services:seminars:main|{{  en:seminar2005.png?80|CERL Seminar, Rome, 2005}}]]
**Seminars and Workshops**\\  
The Consortium holds annual international  seminars and regular regional and national workshops.\\  
[[:en:services:seminars:main|Read more...]]

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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 [[http://www.webarchive.org.uk|UK Web Archiving Consortium]]



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//**News**//

**CERL Newsletter - June 2010**\\
CERL′s June Newsletter is now available for downloading from http://www.cerl.org/web/en/publications/newsletter. 

**Virtual visits to lost libraries: reconstruction of and access to dispersed collections**\\
In 2010, the CERL annual seminar is jointly organised with the LIBER Steering Committee for Heritage Collections and Preservation, and will take place on Friday 5 November 2010 at the Harsdorff Hall, Tøjhusgade 1, Copenhagen, Denmark.\\ [[en:services:seminars:main#annual_seminars|Read more...]]

  *  [[en:publications:cerl_papers:cerl_papers_ix|Publication of CERL Papers IX]]
  *  [[en:publications:newsletter|CERL Newsletter (December 2009)]].
  *  [[en:news#More provenance data added to the CERL Thesaurus|CERL Thesaurus provenance data]]
  *  [[http://www.cerl.org/web/en/resources/hpb/technical/modes_of_access_to_the_hpb_database|Using OCLC's Connexion Browser to access HPB records in MARC21 format]] 
  * [[:en:news|More news...]]   
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