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Manuscript Librarians Working Group - Dates
Meeting of the Manuscript Librarian Working Group
Oslo, 26-27 October 2020
The Working Group organises a meeting for invited participants on 26 October, and a conference open to all on 27 October 2020. Attendence is free, but we do ask that you register your attendance by sending an e-mail to secretariat@cerl.org The theme of the conference is Working with Letters and we invite researchers, manuscripts librarians and other specialists to participate and discuss a two-fold approach to letters. On the one hand, we wish to focus on the institutions and their collections of letters; on the other hand, we wish to explore the cultural history of letters.
Meeting of the Manuscripts Expert Group
Vienna, 13-14 November 2018
If the national library in your country is not yet a member of the CERL Manuscript Expert Group, we invite you to become a member of the group and take part in our meeting in November.
For all countries: we would like to know if there are other institutions with Manuscripts Collections in your country that should be invited.
There is a limited number of places available at the meeting for new members, so if you would like to attend the forthcoming meeting in Vienna, please send an email to bente.granrud@nb.no.
Agenda
Day 1 (13 Nov. 2018)
- p.m. Updates to national backgrounds: several short (15 min. max) presentations from attendees on the most important achievements, challenges, projects, events, developments, etc. We currently have 20 countries or groups of countries covered by reports, mostly from 2015, at https://www.cerl.org/collaboration/manuscriptexperts/explore.
Day 2 (14 Nov. 2018)
- a.m. Discussion and decisions on the following topics, each with a short intro (5 mins) by one of the group:
- Terms of reference of group, mission statement and promotion
- Focus of group, including period (both medieval and modern MSS?) and activities (professional exchange only or also fostering research projects)
- Position of MSS in Special Colls
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- Priorities for website upgrade
- CERL Portal
- Manuscript IDs and digital register of MSS
- Conference in 2019/20 – location and subject/s
Previous conferences
Seventh conference
Unique and Universal: Challenges for the Manuscript Librarian
Trinity College, Dublin, 25-26 May 2016
Conference programme and presentations
Sixth conference
Digital and Traditional Manuscripts: Challenges of a Great Migration
Royal Library, Copenhagen, 9-11 October 2014
Conference programme
Abstracts
Fifth conference
Promoting access to manuscript content
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, May 29-31, 2012
Conference programme
Read the conference report by Jutta Weber.
Fourth conference
Meeting with manuscripts, today and tomorrow
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome, May 26-28, 2010
Conference programme
Read the conference report as published by Jutta Weber in the June 2010 issue of the CERL Newsletter.
Third conference
Communicating manuscripts
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 28-30 November 2007
Conference programme
Read the conference report as published by André Bouwman and Jutta Weber in LIBER quarterly 18 (1), April (2008)
Second conference
The changing role of the manuscript librarian
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) | The Hague, The Netherlands | 5-8 March 2003
Conference programme
Read the conference report as published by Ad Leerintveld and Matthijs van Otegem in LIBER quarterly 13 (2003), 90-97
First conference
Esse, non videri?
Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm, 21-23 September 2000
Conference programme
