EVENTS

Thirty representatives of 23 CERL member institutions attended the CERL Annual General Meeting held in the British Library on 31 October 2012. CERL members were welcomed by Caroline Brazier, Director of Scholarship and Collections, who underlined the importance of CERL to the British Library in its aim of becoming a trusted hub in the international information network. The CERL Chairman, Ulf Göranson, in turn thanked the British Library for its hospitality and for co-organising and hosting the very successful CERL Seminar the previous day.

The meeting heard reports from the CERL Treasurer, Raymond Bérard, on CERL Finances 2011-2012 and the budget forecast for 2012-2013; for the tenth year running, the membership fee for Full Members  remained stable at €8,000 per annum. The Company Secretary, Cristina Dondi, reported on membership issues, promotion and dissemination, scholarly communications, CERL support for recording provenance information and the Material Evidence in Incunabula Database. Alexander Jahnke and Jana Hentschke of the Data Conversion Group, Göttingen, presented progress reports on the Heritage of the Printed Book Database and the CERL Thesaurus, and Ivan Boserup gave a presentation on the CERL Portal. Marian Lefferts highlighted CERL European collaboration (for example, with LIBER) and CERL’s involvement in EU-funded projects, such as Europeana Libraries, CENDARI and the Europeana Cloud project.