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| ====== Benefits of Membership ====== | ====== Benefits of Membership ====== |
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| ** Note:** this list will be modified and extended now that the HPB Database has moved to the OCLC operating environment (FirstSearch and Connexion) from 17 September 2007. | The Consortium shares resources and expertise between research libraries and the research community to enhance access to the European printed and written heritage as well as its exploitation and preservation. CERL legally came into being in June 1994, and was formed on the initiative of major research libraries in several European countries. |
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| </box> | **As an international network of libraries with important collections of early printed books and manuscripts, CERL increases the visibility of the Special Collections Community.**\\ |
| | * CERL members are the custodians of a distinct section of European Cultural Heritage and together we work to increase our collections’ impact and potential for research exploitation.\\ |
| | * We support community building on a regional and/or national level by allowing Single Members to invite Cluster libraries to participate in CERL for free.\\ |
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| * Members of the Consortium receive access to the following databases: | **CERL creates and sustainably maintains services that members could not develop on their own.**\\ |
| * CERL’s [[:resources:hpb:main|Heritage of the Printed Book Database]]: | * CERL provides its members with the opportunity to enhance the impact and research relevance of their collections, enabling them to present their bibliographical and authority records and their digital collections in an international context. |
| * institution-wide access (by password or IP addressing) for searching using OCLC's FirstSearch | * CERL hosts smaller datasets that individual libraries are increasingly unable to commit to hosting themselves. |
| * download records for derived cataloguing using OCLC's Connexion interface | * CERL provides a forum where members work together to create tools for researchers and librarians.\\ |
| * Z39.50 access for other specialised uses | |
| * the [[:resources:cerl_thesaurus:main|CERL Thesaurus]]: | |
| * gives cataloguing staff and researchers a unique overview of which authoritative forms for authors, printers and place names are in use throughout Europe. | |
| * the [[:resources:cerl_portal|CERL Portal]]: | |
| * enables scholars and researchers using both manuscripts and early printed materials to search across the contents of relevant online databases | |
| * the [[:services:eromm|EROMM]] database: | |
| * helps libraries to coordinate microfilming and other reformatting activities aimed at the preservation of printed information while at the same time serving as an instrument for ordering Service copies of reformatted books | |
| * Access can be negotiated for other files available on OCLC's servers. | |
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| * Members of the Consortium may contribute bibliographical or authority records to the CERL resources, thereby increasing the visibility of their collections | **CERL works closely with the researcher and research organisations assuring that our services respond effectively to their research questions and also that we gain insights into user needs which may be shared with CERL members.** |
| | * CERL enables staff at member libraries to be involved in research projects that benefit the member institutions and the researcher and research organisations, expand knowledge about our shred collections and enrich the context in which we present our collections. |
| * Members of the Consortium receive copies of all CERL publications: | * CERL is an incubator for digital humanities projects and facilitates opportunities for members jointly to obtain project funding in this field. |
| * the series //CERL Papers// contains the papers presented at the CERL Seminar which is held in November of each year | **As a special-interest group, CERL organises the exchange of high-level professional expertise on an international scale, to ensure that members have access to relevant information about the latest developments, products and projects. **\\ |
| * the //CERL Newsletter// is published bi-annually | * CERL offers grants to allow early-career librarians and scholars to work on CERL projects in CERL libraries, or in CERL offices, and to be trained on CERL databases. |
| * CERL occasionally prepares additional publications and reports | * CERL’s working groups provide member institutions with a forum for identifying issues of current importance and help ensuring the continued relevance of CERL’s offerings for its members. |
| | * CERL enables staff at member institutions to attend workshops, seminars and summer schools, taught by members of their own community. |
| * Members of the Consortium have access to CERL's community of rare-books specialists through [[:services:seminars:main|seminars and workshops]] | * CERL puts at the disposal of its members an extensive array of dissemination tools to allow the them to announce achievements, ask for advice, connect with potential project partners, or alert colleagues regarding trends in the field. |
| | **CERL represents the special collections community in international fora and projects. **\\ |
| * Members of the Consortium can join in discussions and share specialist information through the Members area of the CERL web site (through password-controlled access) | |
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| * Members of the Consortium have the opportunity to participate in the development of CERL's electronic and published resources | |
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| * Members of the Consortium help to support CERL's initiatives at the European level in the field of Europe's written and printed cultural heritage | |
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| * Full Members may apply to have up to 15 [[http://www.cerl.org/web/en/membership/access_for_cluster_libraries|cluster libraries]] associated with their membership. Cluster libraries are not members of the Consortium but can have access to the HPB Database. | |
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