October 2025

The CERL meetings were held at the National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh. EH1 1EW (see Google maps).

The second day of the seminar on Founding Collections was held on 5 December 2025 at the Guildhall Library in London. The programme is available here.

Papers

Annual Reports

March 2025

This meeting of the Board of Directors will be hosted by the National Széchényi Library in Budapest.

Programme Monday 24 March and Tuesday 25 March
Monday 9-15 EC meeting
Monday 15-17.30 Seminar
Monday 19u Dinner: Déryné, Budapest Krisztina tér 3 1013. Vegetarian options available

Tuesday 9.30-11.30 Seminar
Tuesday 11.30-12.30 Tour of the library TBC
Tuesday 12.30-13.00 lunch
Tuesday 13-17u Meeting of the Board of Directors
Tuesday 18.30 Dinner: Urban Betyár, 1051 Budapest Október 6. utca 16-18

The seminar focusses to various approaches to cross-searching of collections:

Ever since the introduction of electronic resources and tools, cultural heritage institutions have been keen on creating digital infrastructures for transinstitutional and transdisciplinary collaboration in different fields of cultural heritage, bringing together specialists from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, scholars, curators, archivists, and conservators. The European Union is strongly supporting this approach, by funding Europeana and more recently the Cultural Heritage Cloud, with the even broader aim of ‘fostering a secure and sustainable digital infrastructure, digital skills and uptake of technologies by businesses, in particular SMEs’. During this CERL workshop we will examine different successful approaches to cross-collection searching, with a reflection on what has gone before, the types of infrastructure that can currently be achieved, and what might be developed in the future. This is a hybrid event organised by the CERL and hosted by the National Széchényi Library in Budapest, Hungary.

Papers

For information, reports from the Working Groups:

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