CERL information session – CERL member libraries’ experience on digital projects supported by the Polonsky Foundation
Organized by: CERL, Polonsky Foundation
Speaker(s): Andrea Cappa,Bruno Sagna,Cristina Dondi,Domenico Izzo,Karin Zimmermann,Kathleen Doyle,Martin Kauffmann,Suzanne Paul,Torsten Schassan
Our experience: five years of digitization, cataloguing, and dissemination with the Polonsky Foundation. Sharing challenges, successes, lessons learned, and tips – CERL remote seminar, 27 October 2020.
Presentations by the Bodleian Library Oxford, the Vatican Library, the British Library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Rome Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, CERL, Cambridge University Library, Heidelberg University Library, and Wolfenbüttel Herzog August Bibliothek.
An opportunity to share our experience, especially the ‘lessons learned’, which could be very interesting for many other libraries, large and small, who would like to, or are in the process of, embarking on similar projects.
Issues touched upon included:
- Conservation;
- Cataloguing;
- Technical;
- Managerial; Outreach and communication;
- Research; Collaboration.






