Collection Security Summer School 2025
The 8th edition of the the CERL Collection Security Summer School will take place on 10-12 September 2025 and is hosted by Trinity College Library and the National Library in Dublin, Ireland. To register your attendance, please write an email message to secretariat@cerl.org. The registration fee of Euro 95 covers the costs of the coffee breaks, lunches and a drinks reception at Marsh's Library.
Some hotel suggestions
- near Trinity:
- StayCity Apart Hotels on Mark Street
- nearer to Marsh's
Eavan Boland Library
Wednesday 10 September
Meeting place: The Library of Trinity College Dublin, Henry Jones Room (enter through Book of Kells Exhibition, Old Library)
| 13.30 | Welcome and Introductions | Laura Shanahan (Trinity College Dublin) and Marian Lefferts (CERL) |
| 14.00 | CERL Security Working Group in 2024/25 | Jacqueline Lambert (KBR Brussels and Chairman of the Security Working Group) |
| 14.20 | Presentation 1: Protecting history and protecting ourselves: the impact of attacks on cultural heritage objects. Subject matter/Aim: This talk examines the outcome of a premeditated attack on a painting in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, focusing on the impact on staff, changes to working practices as a result of the attack, and the difficulty of public communications about what had happened | Steven Archer, Trinity College Library, Cambridge |
| 15.20 | Break | |
| 15.40 | Presentation 2: Cyber security | Representative of the British Library and Charles Montague, TCD Library, Deputy Head of Content Management and Open Scholarship (Digital) |
| 16.40 | Visit 1: Walk (c. 20 min) to Marsh's Library. Followed by a Tour of Marsh’s Library and display of historic 18th-century registers of theft | Amy Boylan |
| 19.00 | Drinks reception | |
| 20.00 | Dinner | |
Marsh's Library, Dublin
Thursday 11 September
| 9.00 | Assemble in The Library of Trinity College Dublin, North Training Room, Eavan Boland Library | |
| 9.10 | Presentation 3: Communication with the trade | Angus O'Neill-ILAB International League of Antiquarian Booksellers – response by Greger Bergvall |
| 10.00 | Break | |
| 10.20 | Presentation 4: Risk due to war and political turmoil | Henk Raap, KB National Library of the Netherlands, and Gretchen Allan, Senior Conservator. National Archives of Ireland – Blue Shield Irish National Committee |
| 12.00 | Lunch | |
| 13.00 | Visit 2: Trinity - Eavan Boland, Old Library and Book of Kells Experience Exhibition | Depart from meeting room |
| 15.00 | Break | |
| 15.30 | Workshop discussion cards. Aim: Part 1: experiment the tool that helps to get the buy-in and to develop collaboration for security policies. Part 2__: creating new cards based on topics discussed so far | Jacqueline Lambert, KBR Brussels |
| 17.30 | End / Social time | |
| 20.00 | Dinner - Restaurant TBC. As before, participants will have to pay for themselves. | |
Long Room, Trinity College Dublin
Friday 12 September
| 9.00 | Assemble at the National Library of Ireland, 7/8 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 | |
| 9.10 | Visit 3: National Library of Ireland | Brian O’Donnell, NLI |
| 10.40 | Break | |
| 11.00 | Presentation 5: On reconstructing the Record Office | Ciaran Wallace, Deputy Director of Virtual Record Treasury Ireland |
| 12.00 | Lunch | |
| 13.00 | Presentation 6: institutional memory loss | Anna Magdalena Lindskog Midtgaard– Kongelige Bibliothek, Copenhagen |
| 13.45 | SWG perspectives and Conclusion | |
| 14.00 | End | |
National Library of Ireland, Dublin
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