EVENTS

The Consortium’s Annual General Meeting in Edinburgh, which took place in the anniversary year of the first decade of its formal inauguration in 1994, discussed a range of important issues, and made constructive progress in a number of areas.

The Report of the Membership Group, chaired by Mrs Gunilla Jonsson of the Royal Library in Stockholm, was presented to members. This has arisen out of the decision at the 2003 AGM to examine ways of enabling into membership libraries with rich collections of early European printing, a large part of their contents virtually unknown to scholars, in countries with particularly adverse economic circumstances in particular parts of Europe, Central and South America and North Africa.

The Report recommended that wide-ranging discretionary powers should be given to the Consortium’s  Directors to respond sympathetically to an individual case made by a library, or a group of libraries, in such circumstances.