The CERL Grant Committee awarded six CERL Grants:
- To catalogue incunabula at the Huntington Library, San Marino California to Iván Pérez Marinas (Spain), a curator in the Department of Manuscripts, incunabula, and Rare Books of the National Library of Spain, Madrid.
- To catalogue incunabula at the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, Piraeus, Greece to Jemima Bennett (UK), a PhD student in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent and Bodleian Libraries Oxford (collaborative doctoral partnership).
- To catalogue incunabula at the Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp to Laura Semlič (Slovenia/NL) with an MA from the University of Leiden and some experience in working with special collections at The Hague KB and Leiden UL .
- To describe provenance marks at Royal Irish Academy, Dublin to Madeline Birnbaum (United States), Assistant Archivist at Boston University School of Theology Library.
- To catalogue incunabula at Blickling Hall, Norfolk (National Trust) to Carmen Oanea (Romania), a PhD student at Babeș-Bolyai University in Romania exploring the reading practices and habits of early modern readers based on data obtained from former Jesuit libraries across Europe; and with experience in cataloguing Cluj incunabula in MEI.
- To do research for CERL’s Secretariat(specifically, to explore the website of the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme to identify suitable funding calls to support the work of CERL and of its member libraries) to Felix Vanden Borre (Belgium), an MPhil student in Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin.
We received 20 applications from Belgium (2); Brazil (2); France (1); Greece (1); Ireland (1); Italy (4); Romania (1); Slovenia (1, based in NL); Spain (2); Sweden (1); United Kingdom (3); United States (1). 11 early career scholars or librarianship students. 9 early career librarians/archivists or professionals. 15 female and 5 male applicants.
