EVENTS

The 8th edition of the the CERL Collection Security Summer School took place on 10-12 September 2025 and was hosted by Trinity College Library and the National Library in Dublin, Ireland. Three days of expert presentations, hands-on workshops, behind-the-scenes visits, and networking, all focused on the protection of cultural heritage collections.

WEDNESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER
Meeting place: The Library of Trinity College Dublin, North Training Room, Eavan Boland Library

– 13.30: Welcome and introductions – Helen Shenton and Laura Shanahan (Trinity College Dublin) and Marian Lefferts (CERL)
– 14.00: CERL Security Working Group in 2024/25 – Jacqueline Lambert (KBR Brussels and Chairman of the Security Working Group)
– 15.20: Presentation 1: Protecting history and protecting ourselves: the impact of attacks on cultural heritage objects. Subject matter/Aim: This talk examines the outcome of a premeditated attack on a painting in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, focusing on the impact on staff, changes to working practices as a result of the attack, and the difficulty of public communications about what had happened –
– 15.20: Break
– 15.40: Presentation 2: Cyber security with Demo Survey – Charles Montague, TCD Library, Deputy Head of Content Management and Open Scholarship (Digital) and round table
– 16.40: Visit 1: Walk (c. 20 min) to Marsh’s Library. Followed by a Tour of Marsh’s Library and display of historic 18th-century registers of theft
– 17.00: Guided tour
– 18.00: Drinks reception at Marsh’s Library
– 20.00: Dinner Market Bar Gallery, 14A Fade Street, Dublin, IE D02 A368

THURSDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER

– 09.00: Assemble in The Library of Trinity College Dublin, North Training Room, Eavan Boland Library
– 9.10: Presentation 3: Communication with the trade – Emma Walshe-ILAB International League of Antiquarian Booksellers – response by Greger Bergvall
– 10.00: Break
– 10.20: Presentation 4: Risk due to war and political turmoil – Henk Raap, KB National Library of the Netherlands, and Elizabethanne Boran, Worth Library – Blue Shield Irish National Committee
– 12.00: Lunch
– 13.00: Visit 2: Trinity – Eavan Boland, Old Library and Book of Kells Experience Exhibition
– 15.00: Break
– 15.30: Workshop discussion cards. Aim: Part 1: experiment the tool that helps to get the buy-in and to develop collaboration for security policies. Part 2: creating new cards based on topics discussed so far.
– 17.30: End / Social time
– 20:00: Dinner – Lemon & Duke, Duke Lane Upper, D02 YK71. As before, participants will have to pay for themselves.

FRIDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER

– 09.00: Assemble at the National Library of Ireland, 7/8 Kildare Street, Dublin D02 P63
– 9.10: Visit 3: National Library of Ireland – Brian O’Donnell, NLI
– 10.40: Break
– 11: Presentation 5: On reconstructing the Record Office – Ciaran Wallace, Deputy Director of Virtual Record Treasury Ireland
– 12.00: Lunch
– 13.00: Presentation 6: institutional memory loss – round table discussion
– 13.45: SWG perspectives and Conclusion
– 14.00:End