News 2003

CERL Papers III
CERL’s third collection of conference papers has been published under the title Books beyond Frontiers: the need for international collaboration in national retospective bibliography (David Shaw, ed.). The papers are by Galina Rieder (National Library of Russia, St Petersburg), Judit Vízkelety-Ecsedy (National Széchényi Library, Budapest), John Goldfinch (British Library, London), Goran Proot (Bibliotheek Stadscampus, University of Antwerp) and Stijn van Rossem (Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen, University of Antwerp). The papers were presented on 8 November 2002 at the Bibliopolis Conference on ‘The future history of the book’ hosted by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague. ISBN 0 9541535 1 0. Price £15.00 plus postage. To purchase a copy please contact secretariat@cerl.org.

CERL Seminar, National Library of Russia, St Petersburg, 13 November 2003
This year's Seminar was on the theme ‘European cultural heritage in the digital age: creation, access and preservation’. The speakers were

Dr Ludmila Kiseleva (Manuscript Department, the National Library of Russia)
Dr Natalia Elagina (Manuscript Department, the National Library of Russia)
Dr Vladimir Mazhuga (Institute of History, Russian Academy of Science)
Dr Jan Bos (Koninklikje Bibliotheek, The Hague)
Dr Luisa Buson (Centro di Ateneo, Padua University
Dr Kai Ekholm The National Library of Finland)
Dr Claudia Fabian (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

Further details can be found here.

Conference in Sárospatak, Hungary
The Consortium’s Executive Manager, Drs Marian Lefferts, will be demonstating the Hand Press Book database and the CERL Thesaurus file at a conference on Religious book culture in Hungary and Europe from the end of the 15th century to the late 18th century, to be held at the Sárospatak Calvinist College in Hungary. The conference runs from 1 to 3 October, 2003.

CERL Manuscripts Working Group
In 2002 CERL commissioned Radcliffe Interactive to draft a broad-based report to assist CERL to decide from which available products to choose in order to achieve its objective of establishing a system for cross-file searching of web-based databases of manuscript materials, CERL’s Hand Press Book database and the CERL Thesaurus. This report was presented by Dr Lotte Hellinga, the MSS Working Group Chairman, at the LIBER Expert Group of European manuscript librarians’ conference ‘The Changing Role of the Manuscript Librarian’ held on 5-8 March 2003 in the Royal Library, The Hague.

CLCi database access
The Cathedral Libraries Catalogue provides a record of books printed before 1701 in the libraries of Anglican Cathedrals of England and Wales. Work on the Catalogue started in 1943, leading eventually to publication by the Bibliographical Society and the British Library in 1984 (English books) and 1998 (continental books). The MARC records for the continental books were added to the CERL HPB database in 2001.

CERL has now created a separate database for these Cathedral Libraries Catalogue records in order to give the individual cathedral libraries access to them. This database is called CLCi (Cathedral Libraries Catalogue on the Internet). It provides searching by name/title/imprint/date/language/ cathedral and has a facility for downloading records in MARC format. For more information please see http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/cathlibs/.

Logins to the CLCi database are available at a cost of £90.00 providing full access with no time limit. To obtain a login and password, please apply to CERL’s Executive Manager at Marian.Lefferts@cerl.org.