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Just a reminder to register for the CERL Seminar 2025 - “Engaging with Founding Collections in the 21st Century” - on 21 Oct at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Free to attend (registration required): secretariat@cerl.org
#bookhistory

Speaking at the @cerl-community.bsky.social Collection Security Summer School in @nlireland.bsky.social and glad to see this 🙂👇👇 I hope nobody lights that fire!🔥

For the past month RIA Library has been delighted to welcome Madeline Birnbaum, Assistant Archivist at the Boston University School of Theology Library, to the Reading Room. Madeleine was awarded a @cerl-community.bsky.social grant to undertake provenance research into the Charles Haliday collection

🕊In Memoriam: Ulf Göranson

We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our former Chairman, Ulf Göranson on 20 July 2025.

His leadership, vision, and generosity have left a lasting impact, and we remember him with immense gratitude and respect. 🌿

Cosmas’ Chronicle and his sources – towards an exhibition By Tomáš Klimek, National Library of the Czech Republic This year marks the 900th anniversary of the death of the first Czech chronicler, Cosmas, who served as dean of the Prague chapter and died i…

📜 New on our blog: 900 years after Cosmas of Prague’s Chronicle of the Czechs, the National Library marks the anniversary with #Cosmas900 (24 Sept–24 Oct 2025), uniting manuscripts from across Europe.

Read: cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/c...

#CzechHistory #Manuscripts #CulturalHeritage

🕰️ 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...

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 👇

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...

📚 ‘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

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...

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!

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

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

Marian Lefferts @cerl-community.bsky.social presented the volume Never Finished to Heleen Wyffels and Jan Pauwels #bibliography #bookhistory

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...

📢 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

The forum closed with Memories of the Mediterranean, an exhibition at the National Library of Albania showcasing rare books, maps & manuscripts (1300–1800).

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

🎉 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

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!

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...

CERL - Consortium of European Research Libraries - is now on Blue Sky.

Our mission is to connect European book heritage with the world.

Expect to see news on rare books, manuscripts and events from our community.

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