https://www.cerl.org/ 2026-04-28T22:35:52+00:00 https://www.cerl.org/ https://www.cerl.org/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2015-10-15T14:53:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/cerl_seminar_2015_abstracts_and_bios?rev=1444920800&do=diff Abstracts and biographical notes Flavia Bruni How to untangle historic libraries: illuminating collections through inventories Abstract.– After the dissolution of religious orders in Italy in the 1860s, several collections that had belonged to religious houses were merged in those of public libraries. As a result, the provenance of each item is often uncertain. Based on my research on the former Servite cloister of S. Pier Piccolo in Arezzo, this paper will show how inventories can prove he… text/html 2025-04-01T12:46:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/crosscollectionsearching?rev=1743511605&do=diff Approaches to Cross-Collection Searching Introduction Ever since the introduction of electronic resources and tools, cultural heritage institutions have been keen on creating digital infrastructures for trans-institutional and transdisciplinary collaboration in different fields of cultural heritage, bringing together specialists from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, scholars, curators, archivists, and conservators. The European Union is strongly supporting this approach, by funding Euro… text/html 2019-04-16T09:33:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/cvinbookhistory?rev=1555407214&do=diff Workshop: Computer Vision in Book History 27 March 2019 The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands Computer vision is making rapid progress in its ability to extract information from documents. Libraries, academic digital humanists and publishers are now moving from experimenting with computer vision to considering how to implement it in their search platforms or research methods, or support it for their users. This one-day symposium will combine presentations… text/html 2024-05-01T06:59:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/dchforum2015seminar?rev=1714546771&do=diff LIBER Forum for Digital Cultural Heritage The LIBER Forum for Digital Cultural Heritage, co-chaired with CERL, organised a seminar on The State of the Art in Image Recognition, London, Senate House, LIBER 2015, 24 June 2015 Programme 9:00 Giuseppe Amato text/html 2016-07-05T13:49:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/dchforum2016seminar?rev=1467726540&do=diff LIBER Forum for Digital Cultural Heritage 2016 Forum - Helsinki, Wednesday 29 June 2016 The Wood for the Trees – Discoverability of Digital Collections * Maaike Napolitano, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands - text/html 2017-08-17T14:14:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/dchforum2017seminar?rev=1502979270&do=diff LIBER Forum for Digital Cultural Heritage 2017 Forum - Patras, Wednesday 5 July 2017 Managing bequests and digital estates: new challenges for libraries Preserving the literary, musical and scientific heritage of the past centuries has always been at the core of national, regional and academic libraries’ missions. Today’s writers, composers and scientists are no longer using the pen, but the computer to compose their work, challenging libraries to develop the appropriate strategy in order to … text/html 2012-08-31T07:57:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/dubrovnik_2007?rev=1346399846&do=diff Dubrovnik May 2007 Dubrovnik Libraries, Dubrovnik, Croatia The European Manuscript & Hand Press Book Heritage: The role of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) Znanstvena knjiznica (Research Library), Dubrovnik 31 May 2007, 9.00 am text/html 2021-01-29T12:11:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/fellows?rev=1611922315&do=diff CERL Junior Fellows Online presentations on 27 January 2021 CERL Alumni present their research Recording. Cristina Dondi, CERL Company Secretary and Chairman of the CERL Grant Scheme Introduction Martyna Osuch (CERL Grant: Metropolitan Seminary Library in Warsaw, 2019/20) text/html 2018-04-09T07:17:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/liber_digcurwsiv?rev=1523258269&do=diff 4th Digital Curation Workshop Held at the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen, 13-14 November 2017 Theme: Data Stewardship and Data Curation Organised by the LIBER Forum for Digital Cultural Heritage, a LIBER/CERL collaboration. Please contact marian.lefferts@cerl.org if you want to contribute to this event. text/html 2015-06-29T14:53:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/ligatus_cerl_seminar_plenary_session?rev=1435589600&do=diff Presentations Plenary Session Ligatus/CERL Event Chelsea College of Arts, London, 23 June 2015 Prof Nicholas Pickwoad, Director of the Ligatus Research Centre, University of the Arts, London Coming to terms: Ligatus guidelines for bookbinding [Presentation] Mr Per Cullhed, Strategic Development Manager, Uppsala Universitetsbiblioteket text/html 2012-08-31T07:57:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/london_2007?rev=1346399846&do=diff London July 2007 Wellcome Library, London, United Kingdom CERL Seminar for Rare Books Libraries in the London area Wellcome Library, Euston Road, London Monday 9 July " The aim of the Seminar was to raise interest for and use of the Hand Press Book Database (HPB) and CERL’s other services in rare books libraries in the London region, and to invite participation in CERL's activities. text/html 2026-04-08T13:26:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/main?rev=1775654763&do=diff Conferences, Seminars & Workshops Annual Seminars Other Seminars Workshops Workshops Annual Seminars CERL annually organises a seminar addressing subjects relating to the Consortium’s objectives, preceding the Annual General Meeting. 2026 Annual Seminar The seminar on 28 October 2026 will be hosted by Cambridge University, and is on the topic of materiality. A first announcement is available text/html 2021-03-15T13:22:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/meiseminar20210302?rev=1615814520&do=diff MEI Seminar 2 March 2021 - The recording of the whole online event Programme Introduction - Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College, Oxford and CERL) Recording Incunabula treasure hunt: challenges and rewards of research in Greek libraries Vera Andriopoulou, Kleopatra Kyrtata, Angeliki Papadopoulou text/html 2012-08-31T07:57:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/munich_2009?rev=1346399846&do=diff Workshop at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich 5 March 2009 Presentations * Heritage of the Printed Book Database * CERL Thesaurus * CERL Thesaurus (Handout) text/html 2012-08-31T07:57:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/oxford_2011?rev=1346399846&do=diff Workshop at Merton College, Oxford 3 March 2011 Tools for Provenance and Bibliographical Research: presentations * Bodleian Libraries' Luna Image Database * CERL Portal * CERL Thesaurus * Early Book Owners in Britain * Heritage of the Printed Book Database * Identifying Provenance Evidences * Material Evidence in Incunabula * Provenance queries on the CERL website text/html 2012-11-29T17:02:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/powerpoint_presentations?rev=1354208578&do=diff Presentations CERL Seminar 2012, British Library Conference Centre, London Accessing heritage research collections through digitisation: models and use [Planning digitisation projects] – Aly Conteh (British Library, London) [Licensing models] – Rachel Marshall (British Library, London) text/html 2015-06-03T14:19:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/powerpoint_presentations_rome_security_network?rev=1433341161&do=diff Presentations Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, 8 May 2015 The first conference of the CERL Security Network Library Security: Practices and Strategies. There were four sessions covering: 1. Accountability and Governance. 2. Staff interaction with collections. text/html 2016-03-21T10:22:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/powerpoint_presentations_salamanca?rev=1458555755&do=diff Presentations Universidad de Salamanca, 15 March 2016 A coordinated approach to recording and searching provenance records and images: moving forward. Part 2. / Investigación coordinada sobre Procedencias. Hacia el futuro. Parte 2. A conference organised by REBIUN and CERL by Dr Margarita Becedas González and Dr Maria R. Osuna Alarcón (Universidad de Salamanca), and Dr Cristina Dondi (Company Secretary, CERL). text/html 2015-06-01T14:53:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/powerpoint_presentations_vienna?rev=1433170392&do=diff Presentations Austrian National Library, Vienna, 17-18 March 2015 Signa vides - Researching and recording printers’ devices: current activities and new perspectives A conference organised under the auspices of CERL by Prof. Dr. Anja Wolkenhauer (University of Tübingen), Michaela Scheibe (Berlin State Library) and Dr. Andreas Fingernagel (Austrian National Library). text/html 2016-02-03T14:15:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/powerpoint_presentations_warburg?rev=1454508945&do=diff Presentations Warburg Institute, London, 11 March 2015 A coordinated approach to recording and searching provenance records and images: moving forward A conference organised by Raphaële Mouren (Warburg Institute) and Cristina Dondi (CERL Secretary and Lincoln College, Oxford). Sponsored by IFLA RBSC, The Warburg Institute, CERL, 15cBOOKTRADE, CILIP RBSCG. text/html 2017-04-25T09:37:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/powerpoint_presentations_yale?rev=1493113034&do=diff Presentations Yale University Library, New Haven, 21 April 2017 Cristina Dondi (CERL Secretary) [Material Evidence in Incunabula] text/html 2018-05-08T09:04:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/powerpoint_presentations_zurich?rev=1525770279&do=diff Visual approaches to cultural heritage CERL Seminar at the ETH-Bibliothek, Zürich, Wednesday 14 March 2018. Programme VISUAL APPROACHES TO CULTURAL HERITAGE 08.30 Registration and Coffee Welcome and Opening Remarks 09.00-09.15 Andreas Kirstein, Deputy Director, ETH Library and Kristian Jensen, Chairman, CERL text/html 2014-11-19T10:35:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/presentations2014?rev=1416393333&do=diff CERL Seminar 2014 The application of text encoding facilities to digital versions of European early books (Oslo, 28 October 2014) Introduction: About CERL [Marian Lefferts] and [Cristina Dondi] (CERL) Paper 1: [The Impact Centre of Competence: tools for text digitisation and transcription] – Tomasz Parkoła (Digital Libraries Team, Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poznan) text/html 2016-12-07T13:47:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/presentations2015?rev=1481118470&do=diff CERL Seminar 2015 LIBRARY HISTORY: WHY, WHAT, HOW? [Downloadable version of the programme] All papers have been published in Quaerendo 46:2-3 (2016) The study of the history of libraries and library collections can produce useful information to support a library’s collection and conservation policies, to better understand its particular features and to strengthen its attraction for a broad public. text/html 2016-11-07T17:04:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/presentations2016?rev=1478538269&do=diff CERL Seminar 2016 Manuscrits: innovation et coopération / Manuscripts: innovation and collaboration (Paris, 20 October 2016) Paper 1: [Updating and modernizing the French Manuscripts Union Catalogue: a collaborative project for enriching and improving the Catalogue collectif de France] with [commentary] – Camille Poiret (Bibliothèque nationale de France, département de la Coopération) Papers 12: [Fédérer la recherche sur le patrimoine écrit du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance: Biblissima] … text/html 2017-11-06T12:31:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/presentations2017?rev=1509971492&do=diff CERL Seminar 2017 Rijksmuseum, Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Thursday 26 October 2017, 09.00-18.00 The downloadable programme is [here]. Putting it together: Research Access for Hybrid Collections As per CERL's mission statement our focus is on early printed books and manuscripts, and supporting researchers in their study of these materials. It has long been recognised that providing a historical context for the books, such as information relating to book production, their reception a… text/html 2019-11-01T12:29:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/presentations2019?rev=1572611351&do=diff CERL Annual Seminar 2019 Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen Wednesday 9 October 2019 Collections and Networks Reconstructing the Historical Context of Texts, Publications and Objects with digital methods 8:30 Registration text/html 2024-03-21T06:59:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/presentations2023?rev=1711004355&do=diff CERL Seminar 2023 Connecting Books & Audiences through Public Displays KBR, Brussels, Tuesday 7 November. Programme Frédéric Lemmers, KBR Brussels and Kristian Jensen, Chairman of CERL Session I, chaired by Scot McKendrick, British Library text/html 2024-09-28T10:12:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/presentations2024?rev=1727518348&do=diff CERL Seminar 2024 European Printing in Non-Latin Scripts Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Rome, Wednesday 23 October 2024 Viale Castro Pretorio, 105 - 00185 Roma - www.bncrm.beniculturali.it Attendance is free, but please register at secretariat@cerl.org. A printable version of the programme is available text/html 2026-04-02T07:08:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/presentations2025?rev=1775113705&do=diff CERL Seminar 2025 This year, the theme for our annual seminar is Founding Collections. We look forward to hearing papers on how colleagues make strategic use of their founding collections in today's library? More extensive information below. This is a free event, but we ask that your register your attendance, by writing an e-mail message to secretariat@cerl.org. text/html 2025-12-02T15:43:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/presentations2025ii?rev=1764690223&do=diff Engaging with Founding Collections in the 21st century Large research libraries of Europe are typically proud of their founding collections, and still have a vivid interaction with them. The founding collections mirror the lives, interests and relationships of the individuals who amassed them, they are a witness of the social and personal biases of the times, they reflect political geography and instances of preservation and loss. The founding collections may be products of chance encounters, w… text/html 2026-04-08T13:24:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/presentations2026?rev=1775654695&do=diff CERL Seminar 2026 The seminar will be on 28 October and is hosted by Cambridge University Library, the Old Library, Pembroke College, maximum 70 people (in person only). Early announcement: The central theme of the 2026 CERL Annual Conference will be text/html 2025-07-04T11:31:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/previous_cerl_annual_seminars?rev=1751628707&do=diff Previous CERL Annual Seminars * 2024, BNC, Rome European Printing in Non-Latin scripts. Programme. * 2023, Royal Library, Brussels Connecting Books & Audiences through Public Displays. Programme and presentations. * 2022, Trinity College, Dublin Digitising Cultural Heritage Collections: Lessons Learned and Forging Ahead text/html 2012-08-31T07:57:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/previous_cerl_workshops?rev=1346399846&do=diff Previous CERL workshops * National Library of Russia, St Petersburg, for Russian rare books librarians. (October 2006) * SHARP Conference, The Hague. (July 2006) * Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon. (June 2006) * Salon du Livre, Paris. (March 2005) text/html 2022-09-21T08:24:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/programme2022?rev=1663748684&do=diff CERL Seminar 2022 Digitising Cultural Heritage Collections: Lessons Learned and Forging Ahead Tuesday 4 October: 9.30-17.00 Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute (Trinity College Dublin) The Library of Trinity College Dublin and Trinity Centre for the Book Research Seminar will host the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) Annual Seminar on Tuesday October 4, 2022, at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.… text/html 2019-11-29T08:33:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/remotestorage?rev=1575016400&do=diff Seminar on preparing for and using a remote storage facility Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague, 18-19 November 2019 Programme The session was for high-level staff in libraries that were in the process of storing (part of) their collections in a remote facility. text/html 2023-06-14T13:24:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/rnb2023?rev=1686749079&do=diff Retrospective Bibliographies and European Print Cultures to 1830 Challenges and perspectives in the digital age This conference will take place on 29 and 30 June 2023 at the Ossolineum Library, in Wrocław. In the course of 2022, CERL's Retrospective Bibliographies Working Group created an overview of existing or planned retrospective bibliographies. The first results are available text/html 2025-06-23T13:55:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/rnb2025?rev=1750686926&do=diff Mapping Knowledge Collaboration of Retrospective National Bibliographies with research and heritage projects This conference is co-organised with the Short Title Catalogue Vlaanderen (STCV), who are celebrating their 25th anniversary with a programme of events, and the Royal Library, Brussels. text/html 2012-08-31T07:57:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/seminar_2008_french?rev=1346399846&do=diff Séminaire général annuel du CERL vendredi 7 novembre 2008 Petit Auditorium de la Bibliothèque nationale de France " Thème général du séminaire : Linking the worlds of script and print : catalogues of European manuscripts and early printed books text/html 2012-08-31T07:57:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/tallinn_seminar?rev=1346399846&do=diff Tallinn Seminar European Printed Heritage in Estonian Libraries 18 June 2009 Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) Academic Library of Tallinn University Tallinn University Room U-213 (Riho Pätsi nim. kaldaauditoorium), Uus-Sadama 5 text/html 2012-08-31T07:57:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/uppsala2007?rev=1346399846&do=diff CERL Annual Seminar 2007 Script, print and the internet: the early-modern book and its readers Friday, 9 November 2007, Universitet Biblioteket, Uppsala. Location: The Book Hall at Carolina Rediviva (main building of Uppsala University Library, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 1, Uppsala) text/html 2012-08-31T07:57:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/workshop_in_warsaw?rev=1346399846&do=diff CERL workshop in Warsaw Programme Wednesday 14 January 2009, 11.30 am Papers in English (with the consecutive translation into Polish) * Marian Lefferts/David Shaw, The Consortium of European Research Libraries : its mission and resources. *