Previous CERL Annual Seminars

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.
Programme.

2019, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen
Collections and Networks Reconstructing the Historical Context of Texts, Publications and Objects with digital methods.
Programme and presentations.

2018, Palazzo Ducale, Venice
Printing Revolution and Society 1450-1500 - Fifty Years that Changed Europe.
Programme.

2017, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Putting it together - Research access for hybrid collections.
Programme.

2016, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Manuscrits: innovation et coopération / Manuscripts: innovation and collaboration.
Programme and Presentations.

2015, University of Antwerp
Library History: Why, What, How?
Programme and Biographies and Abstracts.
All papers have been published in Quaerendo 46:2-3 (2016).

2014, National Library of Norway, Oslo
The application of text encoding facilities to digital versions of European early books.
Programme, Biographies and Abstracts and Presentations.

2013, University of Warsaw Library
STOP THIEF!, Preventing and investigating theft from collections in the digital age.
Programme.

2012, The British Library, London
Accessing heritage research collections through digitisation: models and use.
Programme and Presentations.

2011, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City
La stampa romana nella Roma dei Papi e in Europa / The Roman Press in the Papal City and in Europe.
Published in October 2016 as CERL Papers XII.
Programme

2010, Royal Library, Copenhagen
Virtual visits to lost libraries: reconstruction of and access to dispersed collections.
Published in November 2012 as CERL Papers XI.
Programme and Summaries of papers

2009, Royal Library, Brussels
Urban Networks and the Printing Trade in Early Modern Europe (15th – 18th century).
Published in November 2010, jointly with the KB Brussels, as CERL Papers X.
Detailed information and seminar programme

2008, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Linking the worlds of script and print : Catalogues of European manuscripts and early printed books.
Published as CERL Papers IX.
Seminar programme

2007, Uppsala University Library
Script, print and the internet: the early-modern book and its readers.
Published in January 2009 as CERL Papers VIII.
Seminar programme

2006, National Széchényi Library, Budapest
Imprints and owners: recording the cultural geography of Europe.
Published November 2007 as CERL Papers VII.

2005, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome
Many into one: problems and opportunities in creating shared catalogues of older books.
Published November 2006 as CERL Papers VI.

2004, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Books and their owners: provenance information and the European cultural heritage.
Published November 2005 as CERL Papers V.

2003, National Library of Russia, St Petersburg
European cultural heritage in the digital age: creation, access and preservation.
Published November 2004 as CERL Papers IV.

2002, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague (Bibliopolis Conference on 'The Future History of the Book')
Books beyond Frontiers: the need for international collaboration in national retrospective bibliography.
Published November 2003 as CERL Papers III.

2001, Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon
Manuscript and Print.

2000, Università degli studi di Padova
Digital imaging and retrospective cataloguing: principles and practice of Italian projects and of CERL.

1999, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels
Printing and publishing in Europe and America, 1450- 1830: Problems of Quantification.
Published 2001 as The scholar & the database (CERL Papers II).