Directors’ Papers 2023

The meeting on 8 November 2023 will take place at the in the Panorama Room, at KBR Brussels, public entrance Mont des Arts 28, 1000 Brussels.

Agenda
Dir 2023 5 Minutes
Dir 2023 6 CERL Ireland – Summary of Operations
Vision by the new Chairman
FM 2023 4 Secretary Report
FM 2023 6 Reporting the EC discussion of a paper on hosting 3rd party databases
CERL 2023 16 ESTC report to EC meeting November 2023, and letter to 2022 CERL meetings in Dublin
FM 2023 3a-b Budget Forecast
Dir 2023 7 CERL Investment Plan (see also Products below)
FM 2023 5 Promotion and Engagement report

The meeting on 18 April 2023 will take place at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, site Richelieu, 5 Rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, France

Timetable
On Monday 17 April, go to the Main entrance of BnF Tolbiac for your tour of the l’Imprimerie exhibtion: map
Restaurant: Le Débonnaire, 107 rue du Chevaleret, 75013 Paris
Access to Richelieu on 18 April – please note you need to bring a form of ID (passport/ driver’s license)
Note that the day starts with a tour of Salle Ovale and the Museum (9.45-11u).
After the meeting, from 16-18u, Jérôme BESSIERE, Directeur of the Département de la Bibliothèque et de la Documentation – INHA, has organised a tour of Salle Labrouste and he will show some highlights from the collection.

Papers

Agenda
Dir/2023/1 Minutes of the previous meeting
Chairman’s Report: 2021/2022 – Reports and Accounts for the Year ended 30 September 2022 (Euro and GBP)
CERL/2023/3 Secretariat Report, incl. setting up a Selection Committee (for reference 2017 Chairman job description and profile)
Dir/2023/3 Special membership for Ukrainian Libraries
CERL/2023/4 Promotion and Engagement
CERL/2023/2a-b CERL finances 2022-23
Dir/2023/2c Membership fees received/outstanding
Dir/2023/4 Report by the Technical Assessment Group, chaired by F. Lemmers (KBR)
CERL/2023/6 Hosting of 3rd party databases
CERL 2023 16 ESTC (report to EC Brussels Nov 2023) and letter to 2022 Dublin meetings
CERL/2023/7 Report on HPB Database
CERL/2023/8 Report on CERL Thesaurus
CERL/2019/9 Report on MEI and the Incunabula Working Group
CERL/2023/10 Report from the Manuscripts Expert Group
CERL/2023/11 Report from the Provenance Working Group
CERL/2023/11b Report on the Provenance Digital Archive
Report from the Bookbinding Working Group (verbal report)
CERL/2023/13 Report from the Security Network
CERL/2023/14 Report from the Retrospective Bibliographies Working Group