CERL would like to offer six 2022 Internship and Placement Grants, to the value of 1,000 Euros each, to allow qualified librarians and scholars to work on CERL projects in CERL libraries, or in CERL offices, and to be trained on CERL digital resources, generally for a period of one month. If matched funding is provided by the hosting institution, the period can be extended.

In particular, CERL is looking to support people new to the profession, whether in librarianship or in academia, and to facilitate international mobility. One of the six grants is offered by Università Cattolica of Milan, and is specifically dedicated to one of their students.

All internships should take place before the end of December 2022. Each of the projects can be undertaken remotely, in consideration of the still ongoing covid-19 pandemic.

CERL asked its member libraries to propose projects suitable to the CERL Grant.

This grant can only be assigned once to the same person. Applications not selected but positively vetted will be notified that they can be put in again for the next round. A written report for the CERL webpage, Newsletter, blog, and/or a presentation in person will be expected at the end of the internship/placement.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Your application should include a CV (maximum two pages) and a covering letter. This should outline preference of destination/project and your suitability for the internship, your reasons for the application, and the name of one referee who can be contacted by CERL.

If the applicant is employed by an institution, the consent of the institution should be included. Short-listed candidates will be interviewed remotely. Deadline: 16 March 2022. Please email the application to c.dondi@cerl.org.

Marsh's Library in central Dublin is Ireland's oldest library. Founded in 1707, it has a significant collection of around 20,000 books from the 16th and 17th centuries. It also houses 75 incunables. The library has detailed MEI-compatible catalogue entries for almost all of these incunabula.

The library seeks applications from suitably qualified individuals to complete the following tasks:

1. Check our online catalogue records against the original incunabula.
2. Create MEI-compatible records for the handful of incunabula that have not yet been catalogued to this standard.
3. Copy the updated catalogue entries from Marsh's Library to the MEI database.
   

Marsh's Library will consider applications from those who wish to come to Dublin for all or part of one month. Those in Dublin for only part of the month may work remotely for the rest of the internship using digital images.

In addition to the CERL stipend of €1,000 to the successful candidate, Marsh's Library will award a fellowship of €2,000 to a candidate who intends to spend a full month (four working weeks) in Dublin (i.e. a total of €3,000).
Those who wish to spend two weeks on site in Dublin will receive the full CERL stipend and one-half of the Marsh's fellowship (i.e. a total of €2,000).
Those who intend to spend one week on site in Dublin will receive the full CERL stipend and one-quarter of the Marsh's fellowship (i.e. a total of €1,500).
Required:
- knowledge of rare books, preferably incunabula and analytical bibliography
- knowledge of Latin and English

March 2022 will see the publication of Elly Cockx-Indestege and Pierre Delsaerdt, Le goût de la bibliophilie nationale. La collection de livres rares et précieux des ducs d’Arenberg à Bruxelles, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bibliologia, 61 (Turnhout, Brepols, 2022), which includes the reconstruction of the now dispersed collection.

One internship of €1,000 is offered to create MEI records using data from the new publication.

The grantee will spend at least one week in the Royal Library in Brussels, and continue the work remotely. The grantee will be supervised by Jan Pauwels and Pierre Delsaerdt.

Required:
- knowledge of rare books, preferably incunabula and analytical bibliography
- knowledge of French

One internship of €1,000 is offered to an experienced MEI Editor to train the incunabulists of the Biblioteca Nazional of Madrid in the creation of MEI records.

The aim is to transfer the data published in Martín Abad, Julian, Catálogo bibliográfico de la colección de incunables de la Biblioteca Nacional de España. 2 vols (Madrid, 2010).

The grantee will be supervised by Maria José Rucio Zamorano.

Required:
- knowledge of rare books, preferably incunabula and analytical bibliography
- knowledge of Spanish

One remote Internship of €1,000 is offered to work on Medieval Libraries of Great Britain online (MLGB3) and Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI):

Some 483 printed books are listed in the database MLGB3, where their current location, as well as their 15th/16th-century provenance from British institutions is provided. Some of these entries can be found in Early Book Owners in Britain (EBOB) database, others not. The grantee will use MLGB3 data pertaining to incunabula to create records in MEI. All records will be crossed referenced to MLGB3 and EBOB.

The internship will be supervised by Cristina Dondi.

Requires:
- knowledge of rare books, preferably incunabula and analytical bibliography
- knowledge of Latin and English

CERL has recently created a Working Group which focusses on Retrospective National Bibliographies (RNBs). The aim is to create a detailed overview of RNBs that record European printed materials, to investigate how CERL can make the most of the RNB data from a variety of countries that we already hold, and to encourage the European library community to record RNB numbers in their own catalogue records as this will support linking.

One remote Internship of €1,000 is offered to work with the RNB Working Group and be supervised by Marian Lefferts

• to create an overview of existing national bibliographies
• to create a description of the RNBs' approaches and their content (incl. a determination whether the RNB covers the period 1450-1850 which is the focus of CERL)
• an overview of which of the RNBs are in the Heritage of the Printed Book database
• to help with organising a conference on the topic of RNBs

Requires:
- knowledge of rare books and bibliography
- knowledge of English

The Security Network has developed a self-assessment tool for libraries and archives to determine where they stand on collection security. Users of the tool may compare their scores with the scores of libraries in the CERL community (see also https://www.cerl.org/collaboration/security/qat). In support of libraries working with the QAT, the Security Network is in the process of developing the Quick Audit Library. In the QAT Library we will bring together policy documents and internal guidelines drawn up by CERL member libraries. The documents in the QAT Library will be made available to CERL members as a source of inspiration for developing their own policy documents and guidelines.

One remote Internship of €1,000 is offered to work with the Security Network and be supervised by Marian Lefferts

• to help shape the Quick Audit Tool library
• to encourage CERL members to contribute to the QAT Library
• to promote the QAT Library and review the uptake of this tool

Requires:
- knowledge of rare books and bibliography
- knowledge of English

Since 2019, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan funds a dedicated grant to allow a student from its institution who matches the indicated requirements to be selected for a CERL internship abroad, specifically to work on incunabula and MEI.