CERL Annual General Meeting 2011
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The 2011 Annual General Meeting took place at the Vatican Library, on Saturday 12 November. Representatives of around thirty CERL members heard reports from the Treasurer, the ATG and OCLC, as well as progress reports and outlines of the plans for 2012 for all CERL Services. A substantial part of the meeting was dedicated to reviewing CERL’s collaboration with other European organizations, and CERL’s work in projects, such as the Europeana Libraries project (see above). The British Library invited CERL and its members to hold their 2012 meetings in London.
At the end of this meeting, after five years in the post, Elmar Mittler stepped down as CERL Chairman. The members unanimously elected Dr Ulf Göranson of the University Library in Uppsala as his successor. The members also re-elected Gérard Grunberg of the Bibliothèque nationale de France to the Board of directors and elected Dr Ewa Kobierska-Maciuszko of the University Library of Warsaw to the Board.
Those attending the meeting were grateful for the wonderful hospitality of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, which included a tour of the library, an after-hours visit to the Vatican Museums (including the Sistine Chapel, the Stanze di Raffaello, and the maps gallery) followed by a lovely dinner for members, representatives of Italian libraries and those who presented papers at the CERL Annual Seminar.
