You are invited: 𝗖𝗘𝗥𝗟 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 “𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀” 🗓️ 𝟮𝟴 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 
 📍 𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆, 𝗣𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗸𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲 📩 𝗧𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿,write to 𝘀̲𝗲̲𝗰̲𝗿̲𝗲̲𝘁̲𝗮̲𝗿̲𝗶̲𝗮̲𝘁̲@̲𝗰̲𝗲̲𝗿̲𝗹̲.̲𝗼̲𝗿̲𝗴̲ Programme: www.cerl.org/services/sem... #CERLSeminar #ResearchLibraries #MaterialCulture #CambridgeUL

We are very happy to welcome Cristina Lavosi to CERL as our new Communication Officer. From Cristina: “Thank you CERL for the warm welcome! I’m feeling very lucky to be joining a network with such a rich history and so much fascinating research. I’m excited to help share all this incredible work.”

The 6th edition of Provenance in Book History will be on 25 June 2026 Programme: www.cerl.org/collaboratio... Register with secretariat@cerl.org Recordings and slides of previous editions: www.cerl.org/collaboratio...

Just back from CERL Manuscripts WG meeting at ZB Solothurn. With WG Chair @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social and ZB's Ian Holt, MSS experts from AT/CH/DE/DK/HU/IE/IT/LI/NL/NO/PL/SE/UKdiscussed standards/thesauri, HTR, training needs, relation with archivists/conservators, collaboration. Join us next time!

The Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database by CERL tracks copy-specific evidence in 15th-century books. Freely accessible and continually expanding through international collaboration. 🔎 Explore MEI: data.cerl.org/mei/_search

The CERL Provenance Working Group has just published its annual newsletter, with reports on projects and ongoing research, case studies, internships and fellowships, events and publications, contributed by colleagues all over Europe. www.cerl.org/collaboratio...

Registration is now open 📚 CERL Manuscript Librarians Working Group Conference Collections Across Repositories: Manuscripts and their Custodians 📍 Zentralbibliothek Solothurn, Switzerland 🏔️ 📅 10 March 2026 To attend, email: secretariat@cerl.org #bookhistory #manuscripts

📢 Call for Papers | CERL Manuscript Librarians Working Group Collections Across Repositories: Manuscripts & Their Custodians 📅 10 Mar 2026 | 📍 Solothurn 🇨🇭 20-min papers & 45-min roundtables welcome. 🗓 Deadline: 30 Jan 2026 📧 daryl.green@ed.ac.uk

⭐ New CERL Newsletter out now (Dec 2025) Featuring a letter from Chair Claudia Fabian, community news, awards & grants, the Polish Provenance Database, recent seminars, upcoming bookbinding talks, and new Board members & libraries. 👉 www.cerl.org/_media/publi...

⭐ New CERL blog post “Studying the ‘life’ of Spanish incunabula at Huntington Library” by Iván Pérez Marinas, CERL Grant recipient 2025. Based on a 4-week research stay co-financed by The Huntington Library. 👉 cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/c...

CERL internships 2025 – Huntington Library

Studying the ‘life’ of Spanish incunabula at Huntington Library (San Marino, California)  By Iván Pérez Marinas  Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif…

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🎉 Proud to announce that the Polish Provenance Database (PPD) has launched! Focused on post-1500 books in Polish collections, it’s a collaboration of 17 libraries & CERL, led by the University Library of Warsaw. Work and testing of PPD in progress. Search PPD: data.cerl.org/polish-prove... 👏

📣 Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for a successful second seminar on Founding Collections in the 21st Century at @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social. The recordings are available on YouTube and the proceedings will be published! #bookhistory

Had a fantastic day today @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social listening to colleagues from across Europe present on their founding collections for the @cerl-community.bsky.social annual seminar. Thanks to all involved!

Guildhall Library@guildhalllibrary.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We have had the pleasure today of hosting the second part of the 2025 annual CERL seminar: 'Your library is your portrait: Engaging with Founding Collections in the 21st century' CERL is the Consortium of European Research Libraries.

Join us in London on 5 Dec 2025 for CERL’s Seminar at Guildhall Library (guildhalllibrary.bsky.social)! Explore how Europe’s founding library collections continue to shape research today. With support from @abararebooks.bsky.social! Register: secretariat@cerl.org Livestream coming soon!

📢 New on our YouTube channel: Maria Ruiz Fargas & Laia Navarro de Llobet explore cataloguing provenance at UB’s CRAI Rare Book & Manuscript Library. 🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlnN... #bookhistory

Cataloguing Provenance at CRAI Library | Maria Ruiz Fargas & Laia Navarro de Llobet

YouTube video by CERL – Consortium of European Research Libraries

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Join us online on Thursday 13 Nov for the 5th CERL Provenance Seminar! 16:00–16:30 Marina Ruiz Fargas & Laia Navarro de Llobet (Univ. of Barcelona) 16:30–17:00 Mira Krall (Austrian National Library) 17:00 Discussion Register via secretariat@cerl.org to receive link! #bookhistory

Claude D. Conter, director of the BnL, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (@cerl-community.bsky.social) at the Annual General Meeting on 22 October 2025. Photo: © Brainplug

Gathering in Edinburgh for CERL’s 2025 AGM 📚 Grateful to the National Library of Scotland (@natlibscot.bsky.social) for hosting us, and to everyone helping connect libraries and early printed collections across borders 🌍 📸 Callum Ollason

Join us for this hybrid event on Founding Collections, taking place on 5 December 2025 and hosted by the @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social Programme and registration details on www.cerl.org/services/sem...

Last week, CERL held its annual seminar in Edinburgh, exploring founding collections in the 21st century 📚✨ Huge thanks to the National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social for hosting us so warmly! 🏛️ #CERL #Libraries #BookHistory

📚 New on the CERL Blog! Librarian Tomás de Brito from CERL member Ediciones Ampersand in Buenos Aires offers insights into the history of the house's library - a space that bridges publishing, scholarship, and bibliophilia. 🖋️ Full blog post here: cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/e...

Ediciones Ampersand and its library: an insight into the core of our Collections

By Tomás de Brito, Ampersand In June 2025, Ediciones Ampersand became the first special member from South America to join the CERL community. We seize this opportunity to introduce ourselves throug…

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José Luis Bueren Gómez-Acebo (Biblioteca Nacional de España) presents on the CERL Security Network at the EGATTT session during ICA 2025 Barcelona — join online today, there’s still time to register! #CERL #EGATTT #ICA2025 #bookhistory Get zoom-link here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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. 🌿

📜 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

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…

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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...

Zigzag Calendars: A case study in outreach with schools at Lambeth Palace Library

Dr Sarah M. Griffin, Curator of Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar From February to May 2025, Lambeth Palace Library hosted Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar.[1] The exhibition…

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Lambeth Palace Library@lampallib.bsky.social · last yr.

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 👇

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...