CERL Annual Seminar 2006

Imprints and owners: recording the cultural geography of Europe

Organized by: CERL

National Library of Hungary | Országos Széchényi KönyvtárAbout 70 members and guests attended CERL’s Annual Seminar, which took place in the Conference Hall of the National Széchényi Library, Budapest on 10 November 2006. This year’s theme was ‘Imprints and owners: Recording the cultural geography of Europe’.

Speakers included:

  • Mr Ádám Hegyi (University of Szeged), MOKKA-R (Hungarian Shared Cataloguing – early printed books).
  • Dr István Monok (National Széchényi Library, Budapest), The Union Catalogue of Rare Book Collections in the Carpathian-Basin :Shared Cataloguing and the use of provenance data.
  • Dr Marianne Rozsondai and Dr Béla Rozsondai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest), Cataloguing rare books in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – problems of incunabula and copy-specific data.
  • Mrs Gunilla Jonsson (Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm) and Mr Tony Curwen (Aberystwyth), Provenance and the Itinerary of the Book: recording provenance data in on-line catalogues.
  • Dr Alexander Jahnke (Data Conversion Group, SUB Göttingen), Accessing the record of European printed heritage: the CERL Thesaurus as an international repository of names from the hand-press era.
  • Dr Kristian Jensen (British Library), Crossing the continent, crossing disciplines: Old books in new libraries

The papers from the 2006 Annual Seminar were published in November 2007 as as CERL Papers VII.

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EVENT INFORMATION

National Széchényi Library

  • Location: Budapest - Hungary
  • Event date: November 10, 2006

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