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Promoting Europe's cultural heritage in print and manuscript

CERL seeks to share resources and expertise between research libraries with a view to improving access to, as well as exploitation and preservation of the European printed heritage in the hand-press period (up to c. 1850). The organisation was formed in 1992 on the initiative of research libraries in many European countries and legally came into being in June 1994. Read more...

For the latest news you can find us at various events (see the CERL Agenda), follow CERL on Twitter or you can join the CERL mailing list: please contact secretariat@cerl.org to register.

CERL Networks


CERL Security Network The CERL Security Network coordinates information about on-going security issues of relevance for collections. Read more...

Manuscripts Expert Group The Manuscripts Expert Group acts as a forum for curatorial concerns, and to enhance understanding and practical cooperation among curators across Europe. Read more...

CERL Bookbindings Working Group The CERL Bookbindings Working Group aims to foster collaboration between book binding projects, and encourage the use of standards across these project. Read more...

Seminars and Workshops


CERL Seminars and Workgroups CERL organises frequent seminars and workshops which address topical issues relating to the care of our heritage collections. The presentations held at the CERL Seminars are available here.

European Projects


Provenance CERL is involved in several funded projects, covering a variety of topics and with a wide range of European partners. Read more...

Other News

CERL Newsletter - December 2018
The latest CERL Newsletter is available here.

CERL Annual Seminar, Wednesday 19 to Friday 21 September 2018
This year's Annual Seminar was the 15cBOOKTRADE end-of-project conference held in Venice. The theme was Printing Revolution and Society 1450-1500 - Fifty Years that Changed Europe. There is an exhibition on the same theme at the Marciana Library (1-30 September 2018) and Correr Museum (1 September 2018–7 January 2019). The programme for the Conference can be found here.

Collection Security Summer School, Wednesday 5 to Friday 7 September 2018
CERL's annual Summer School on Collection Security was held at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome, from 5-7 September 2018. The programme is available here.

CERL Thesaurus migration completed
A new interface for the CERL Thesaurus was launched on Monday 18 June. The presentation of the records is cleaner and more information rich. Read more....

CERL Annual Seminar, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Thursday 26 October 2017
The seminar was on Putting it together: Research Access for Hybrid Collections. The programme and presenters' slides are available here.

CERL Papers XIII - Signa Vides - Researching and recording printers' devices
The papers were presented at the CERL Workshop hosted by the National Library of Austria, Vienna on 17-18 March 2015, and can be downloaded here.

CERL Papers XII - La Stampa Romana nella città dei papi e in Europa
The volume includes papers presented at the CERL Seminar on 11 November 2011 hosted by the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, with supplementary contributions, and can be ordered here.


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