Promoting Europe's cultural heritage in print and manuscript
The Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) is the international focal point for the engagement with the historic printed books and manuscripts, the written heritage of Europe, represented by the collections of our members and beyond. We focus on manuscripts and printed books produced before the middle of the nineteenth century. CERL is where library and information professionals work together so that people can gain the full, connected meaning from our distributed collections and where leaders of our member institutions have access to a pool of shared expertise for the development of strategy, policy and tools for their implementation in an increasingly international field. We are a flexible membership organisation which works to benefit our members - in Europe and world-wide - and their users. Jointly the distributed resources of our members document a shared experience of national and regional specificities within a wider whole, which is inextricably interconnected, intellectually, commercially, and politically. The organisation was formed in 1992 on the initiative of research libraries in many European countries and legally came into being in June 1994. For the latest news you can follow CERL on Twitter or you can join the CERL mailing list: please contact secretariat@cerl.org to register.
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Ukraine
On this webpage we bring together information on libraries' responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Donate via the International Rescue Committee DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal or your national Aid Agency.
CERL Networks
The CERL Security Network coordinates information about on-going security issues of relevance for collections. Read more...
The Manuscripts Librarians Working Group acts as a forum for curatorial concerns, and to enhance understanding and practical cooperation among curators across Europe. Read more...
The CERL Bookbindings Working Group aims to foster collaboration between book binding projects, and encourage the use of standards across these project. Read more...
Seminars and Workshops
CERL organises frequent seminars and workshops which address topical issues relating to the care of our heritage collections. The presentations held at the CERL Seminars are available here.
European Projects
CERL is involved in several funded projects, covering a variety of topics and with a wide range of European partners. Read more...
Other News
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CERL Annual Seminar and Annual General Meeting 2024
The CERL Provenance Digital Archive has moved and is now available here. You can create an account, upload images, add and edit descriptions of provenance marks, and help other users identify owners' marks. The images and the descriptions you create are published under a CC0 license and the images are available as IIIF. Guidelines for using the PDA are available here. |
CERL Papers XIV - Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500. Fifty Years that Changed Europe, Cristina Dondi. This is an Open Access publication. Download your copy here. |
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