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        <title>CERL Archived Pages</title>
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CERL's Greetings Cards</description>
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        <title>CERL’s Aims</title>
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        <description>CERL’s Aims

The Consortium’s purpose is to share resources and expertise between research libraries with a view to improving access to, as well as research on and preservation of, the European printed heritage.

CERL’s major electronic initiatives are listed below.
In addition, CERL organises</description>
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        <dc:date>2023-09-15T07:48:52+00:00</dc:date>
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        <title>Elections of CERL Chairman</title>
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These pages contain papers pertaining to the elections for Chairman in recent years.

Chair election 2023

Chairman election 2014

Chairman election 2011

Chairman election 2009</description>
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CERL uses as its logo a version of the printers’ device made famous by the Estienne (Stephanus) dynasty of Renaissance printers in Paris and Geneva.
A similar device was also used by members of the Elsevier family in Leiden and Amsterdam in the 17th and 18th centuries.</description>
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        <title>Selection of the next Chairman (2009)</title>
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        <description>Selection of the next Chairman (2009)

Documents concerning the selection of a candidate for election as the Chairman of CERL at the Annual General Meeting on 7 November 2009.

	*   [Letter to all CERL members]
	*   [Timetable for the selection procedures]
	*   [Description of the role of Chairman]
	*   [Qualities required for a Chairman of CERL]

	&quot;  Dr David J. Shaw
Secretary&quot;</description>
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	*   [Letter to all CERL members]
	*   [Timetable for the selection procedures]
	*   [Description of the role of Chairman]
	*   [Qualities required for a Chairman of CERL]</description>
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        <description>Selection of the next Chairman (2017)

Documents concerning the selection of a candidate for election or re-election as the Chairman of CERL at the Annual General Meeting on Friday 27 October 2017.

	*  [Description of the role of the Chairman]
	*  [Responsibilities of the Chairman]

Selection of the Chairman (2014)

	*  [Letter to all CERL members]

Selection of the Chairman (2011)</description>
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        <description>Selection of the next Chair (2023)

Documents concerning the selection of a candidate for election or re-election as the Chair of CERL at the Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 8 November 2023.

	*  [Responsibilities]
	*  [Profile]

Selection of the next Chairman (2017)

Documents concerning the selection of a candidate for election or re-election as the Chairman of CERL at the Annual General Meeting on Friday 27 October 2017.</description>
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        <title>Selection of the next Chair (2023)</title>
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        <description>Selection of the next Chair (2023)

Documents concerning the selection of a candidate for election or re-election as the Chair of CERL at the Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 8 November 2023.

	*  [Responsibilities]
	*  [Profile]

Selection of the next Chairman (2017)

Documents concerning the selection of a candidate for election or re-election as the Chairman of CERL at the Annual General Meeting on Friday 27 October 2017.</description>
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        <title>Citations about CERL</title>
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        <description>Citations about CERL

2016

The Manutius Network was reproduced but unfortunately NOT acknowledged in Maria Gioia Tavoni, 'Il 2015-2016 per Aldo Manuzio, ovvero il torchio gutenberghiano in nuovi alberi e rami', in Aldo al lettore. Viaggio intorno al mondo del libro e della stampa in occasione del V Centenario della morte di Aldo Manuzio</description>
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        <title>Data Privacy Policy</title>
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        <description>Data Privacy Policy

Our website  may be used without entering personal information. Different rules may apply to  certain services on our site, however, and are explained separately below. We  collect personal information from you (e.g. name, address, email address,  telephone number, etc.) in accordance with the provisions of German data  protection statutes. Information is considered personal if it can be associated  exclusively to a specific natural person. The legal framework for data  prot…</description>
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        <title>CERL Strategic Plan, 2024-2027</title>
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        <description>CERL Strategic Plan, 2024-2027

The Strategic Plan opens with an introduction to the Consortium. Who are we? What do we do, and why do we do it? It outlines our priorities for the coming years around three core pillars: CERL as a professional network, as a network of data, and as a membership organisation. It provides a summary of the actions to be undertaken during the period of the Strategic Plan and describes the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) associated with each of our three core functio…</description>
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        <description>CERL Legal Documents

The current legal documents are presented here as a PDF files.  

	*  [Articles of Association - CERL Ireland - 5 January 2021]

	*  [Rules and Regulations 2014]

	*  [Funding Agreement 2012-2015]

Archived:


	*  [Rules and Regulations] (old version)

	*  [First Funding Agreement]

	*  [Articles of Association - CERL England - 16 June 1994]

	*  [Memorandum of Association]

	*  [Memorandum of Agreement between CERL and LIBER (February 2014)]
To download a copy of the free …</description>
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        <title>About CERL</title>
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        <description>About CERL

Welcome to CERL, the Consortium of European Research Libraries. The Consortium's purpose is to share resources and expertise between research libraries with a view to improving access to, as well as exploitation and preservation of, the European printed heritage.</description>
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        <dc:date>2025-12-18T13:27:43+00:00</dc:date>
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        <title>CERL's Organisation</title>
        <link>https://cerl.org/about/organisation?rev=1766064463&amp;do=diff</link>
        <description>CERL's Organisation

Secretariat

	*  Chair: Dr Claudia Fabian
	*  Treasurer: Dr Jason McElligott, Marsh's Library, Dublin
	*  Secretary: Prof Cristina Dondi, CERL Secretary and Sapienza University of Rome
	*  Executive Manager: Drs Marian Lefferts
	*  Outreach and Communication Officer: Ms Charlotte Murphy

Board of Directors (2025-2026)

	*</description>
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        <description>CERL's Aims
CERL's Organisation
List of Members
Strategic Plan
Publications about CERL
Citations about CERL
Legal Documents
Membership Information
CERL's logo
Chairman elections
Archived Pages
Data Privacy Policy</description>
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