Collection Security Summer School 2023

Our fifth in-person Collection Security Summer School focussed on working with staff and partners on Collection Security Issues. Libraries need to work with staff to keep good levels of security awareness, to engage them in drawing up policies and practices, and to develop emergency planning. Whether it is a question of moving collections in an emergency, evacuating reading rooms, increasing global vigilance or simply enhancing staff awareness, we will have to be creative and organised. With our partners, such as other libraries in our countries, monastic libraries or antiquarian booksellers, we speak about best practices and aligning our procedures. In this context, the theme for the CERL Collection Security Summer School was ‘Security Policy in Practice: Staff & Partners'.

Presentations at previous editions of the summer school are available here.

Programme 2023 - Security policy in practice: staff & partners

Date: Wednesday 6 September - Friday 8 September 2023
Venue: Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, Spain (Paseo de Recoletos, 20-22 Madrid 28071)

Wednesday 6 September
14.00Welcome and Introductions Representative of BNE and Marian Lefferts, CERL
14.30CERL Security Working Group in2022/23 PresentationJacqueline Lambert, KBR Brussels and Chairman of the Security Working Group
14.50Cooperation with book antiquaries: lights and shadowsGreger Bergvall, Royal Library Sweden
16.00Break
16.30Benchmarking the balance of access, security and preservation for significant library collections PresentationPhilippa Stevens, Churchill Fellowship
17.30Visit Marqués de Valdecilla Historical Library, Complutense University (including the travel to the venue)
19.15End of visit/Social Time
20.30Dinner at La Gloria Bar
Thursday 7 September
9.00Assemble in the meeting room
9.10Marking our collections: to stamp or not to stamp? PresentationJulie Gardham, University of Glasgow Information Services
10.40Break
11.15Visit to the National Library of Spain
12.30Lunch
13.30Quick Audit Tool Discussion Cards PresentationJacqueline Lambert, KBR Brussels
15.00Break
15.30Planning for a disaster: how to ensure the safety of the collections when you suddenly need to move a (large) part of the collections (due to pests, flood, any other disaster)Henk Raap, KB, the National Library of the Netherlands
16.45Visit to the Prado Museum Library (including the travel to the venue)
18.15End of visit/Social Time
20.30Dinner at La cantina del Ateneo
Friday 8 September
9.00Assemble in the meeting room
9.10Review, evaluation and update of facilities in times of cutbacks PresentationBrian O'Donnell, National Library of Ireland
10.20Launch of the Quick Audit Tool Library and some idea on how to organise staff training PresentationJacqueline Lambert, KBR Brussels
11.00Break
11.30Moving books from off-site locations to the library: methods of security employed and lessons learned PresentationWolfgang-Valentin Ikas, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
12.30Conclusion
13.00Lunch / End of the Summer School