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A data hub & scholarly network on historic printed books & manuscripts. www.cerl.org

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🕰️ How would you draw time?

That’s what kids were asked at Lambeth Palace Library’s workshop tied to the Unfolding Time exhibition.

Read in our latest CERL blog post how this creative outreach brought medieval calendars to life for 200+ London pupils.

🔗 cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/z...

28.07.2025 11:21 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Photo of post it notes from children to draw how they viewed the concept of time.

Photo of post it notes from children to draw how they viewed the concept of time.

As part of our #UnfoldingTime exhibition, we
brought the fun of medieval concertina-fold almanacs to
over 200 children in schools and public libraries! 📜✨

Discover how our Zigzag Calendar Workshops turned
these tricky books into a fun activity for kids
by reading the latest CERL blog post 👇

28.07.2025 10:28 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB) – unified access to early European printed works (c.1455–1830) from major European and North American libraries.

Open access, with growing links to digitised copies.

Explore via: www.cerl.org/resources/hp...

23.07.2025 14:33 — 👍 11    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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📚 ‘Your Library is Your Portrait’

CERL Seminar 2025

🗓️ 21 Oct | 📍 Edinburgh

How do founding collections shape library identity today?

Join us for talks on legacy, reinterpretation & change in major research libraries.

🔗 www.cerl.org/services/sem...
#CERL2025 #FoundingCollections #LibraryHistory

23.07.2025 08:50 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us in Dublin, 10–12 Sept 2025 for the CERL Collection Security Summer School!

🎤 Talks, tours, workshops & more
📍 Trinity College & National Library of Ireland
💶 Fee: €95 (incl. lunches & reception)
✉️ Register: secretariat@cerl.org
Programme: www.cerl.org/collaboratio...

09.07.2025 13:38 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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On 26-27 June, we gathered at KBR for the conference “Mapping Knowledge”! 📚 14 countries, 20 institutions, and a rich dialogue on the future of Retrospective National Bibliographies. Thanks to KBR and STCV for making it happen!

09.07.2025 09:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy birthday to Short Title Catalogue Flanders! Heleen Wyffels opens the @cerl-community.bsky.social conference on mapping Knowledge at Royal Library in Brussels #25yearsSTCV

26.06.2025 11:16 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Back at @cerl-community.bsky.social conference in beautiful Brussels (after a small hiccup this morning). In time for paper by Alyssa Steiner on Incunabula Short Title Catalogue #bookhistory

27.06.2025 08:49 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Marian Lefferts @cerl-community.bsky.social presented the volume Never Finished to Heleen Wyffels and Jan Pauwels #bibliography #bookhistory

26.06.2025 13:59 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Democratization of Library Heritage Collections By Louise Amazan, Daryl Green & Garrelt Verhoeven (IFLA RBSC) Introduction On April 24th 2025 the Standing Committee for Rare Books & Special Collections (RBSC) of IFLA and CERL’s Bookbindi…

Take a look at our latest blogpost on the democratization of library heritage collections: cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/t...

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📢 Register now!
Join us in Dublin for the CERL Collection Security Summer School
📅 10–12 Sept 2025
🏛️ Trinity College Library & National Library of Ireland
💶 €95 (inc. lunch, coffee, drinks reception)
Open to all working with or interested in cultural heritage.

📧 Register: secretariat@cerl.org

25.06.2025 14:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The forum closed with Memories of the Mediterranean, an exhibition at the National Library of Albania showcasing rare books, maps & manuscripts (1300–1800).

23.06.2025 08:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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At the Anna Lindh Foundation Forum 2025 in Tirana, in a session co-organised with CERL, experts emphasized the crucial yet often underappreciated role of libraries as hubs for intercultural dialogue, inclusive research, and the advancement of open science. #LibrariesMatter

23.06.2025 08:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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🎉 Welcome Ediciones Ampersand, CERL’s first South American Special Member! 🇦🇷📚

Based in Buenos Aires, they are a publishing house with a library dedicated to the practices, trades, and arts linked to books.

Excited for what’s ahead!

#CERL #EdicionesAmpersand #BookHistory

16.06.2025 08:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And if you’re around for the Anna Lindh Forum in Tirana, don’t miss the exhibition opening: “Memories of the Mediterranean” at the National Library of Albania. 🗺️

We’re looking forward to the conversations and to seeing some of you there!

16.06.2025 07:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We're happy to be part of the Anna Lindh Forum 2025 in Tirana on 18 June!

CERL will be co-hosting a session on how libraries can spark cultural dialogue and preserve shared heritage across the Euro-Med. 🌍

Hope to see some of you there!

🔗 alf.website/en/alforum-d...

16.06.2025 07:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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