CERL Papers

A major series of publications of the papers given at the annual CERL Seminars

Each year CERL holds a one-day Seminar the day before its Annual General Meeting in November. These seminars provide an opportunity for scholars and librarians to talk about issues of common interest in the general field of the European written and printed heritage and about CERL’s work on the technologies for providing access to these materials.

Each year’s seminar contributions are published at the time of the following year’s Seminar under the title of CERL Papers.

CERL Papers I The European Printed Heritage c. 1450–c.1830: Present and Future. Three Lectures. Privately printed for members and friends of CERL.
London, 1998. [Three papers in English.]
CERL Papers I is now out of print, but is available to download here.

CERL Papers II The Scholar & the Database (Lotte Hellinga, ed.). Papers presented on 4 November 1999 at the CERL conference hosted by the Royal Library, Brussels.
London, Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2001.
ISBN 0-9541535-0-2. [Eleven papers in English and French.]
CERL Papers II is now out of print, but is available to download here.

CERL Papers III Books beyond Frontiers: the need for international collaboration in national retrospective bibliography (David Shaw, ed.). Papers presented on 8 November 2002 at the Bibliopolis Conference on ‘The future history of the book’ hosted by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague.
London, Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2003.
ISBN 0-9541535-1-0. [Four papers in English and German.]
CERL Papers III is now out of print, but is available to download here.

CERL Papers IV European Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: creation, access and preservation (David Shaw, ed.). Papers presented on 13 November 2003 at the CERL conference hosted by the National Library of Russia, St Petersburg.
London, Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2004.
ISBN 0-9541535-2-9. [Six papers in English.]
CERL Papers IV is available to download here.

CERL Papers V Books and their owners: provenance information and the European cultural heritage (David Shaw, ed.). Papers presented on 13 November 2004 at the CERL conference hosted by the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.
London, Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2005.
ISBN 0-9541535-3-7. [Eight papers in English.]
CERL Papers V is available to download here.

CERL Papers VI Many into one: problems and opportunities in creating shared catalogues of older books (David Shaw, ed.). Papers presented on 11 November 2005 at the CERL conference hosted by the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome.
London, Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2006.
ISBN 0-9541535-5-3. [Eight papers in English, with Italian summaries.]
CERL Papers VI is available to download here.

CERL Papers VII Imprints and owners: recording the cultural geography of Europe (David Shaw, ed.). Papers presented on 10 November 2006 at the CERL Seminar hosted by the National Széchényi Library, Budapest.
London, Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2007.
10-digit ISBN 0-9541535-6-1, 13-digit ISBN 978-0-9541535-6-4. [Six papers in English, with Hungarian summaries.]
CERL Papers VII is available to download here.

CERL Papers VIII Script, print and the internet: the early-modern book and its readers (David Shaw, ed.). Papers presented on 9 November 2007 at the CERL Seminar hosted by the Universitetsbibliotek, Uppsala.
London, Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2009.
ISBN 978-0-9541535-7-1. [Six papers in English.]
CERL Papers VIII is available to download here.

CERL Papers IX Linking the worlds of script and print: catalogues of European manuscripts and early printed books (David Shaw ed.). Papers presented on 7 November 2008 at the CERL Seminar hosted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, and on 18 June 2009 at the CERL Seminar hosted by the Academic Library of Tallinn University.
London, Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2009.
ISBN 978-0-9541535-8-8. [Four papers in English and two in French.]
CERL Papers IX is available to download here.

CERL Papers X Urban Networks and the Printing Trade in Early Modern Europe (15th-18th century) (Renaud Adam, Ann Kelders, Claude Sorgeloos and David J. Shaw eds.). Papers presented on 6 November 2009 at the CERL Seminar hosted by the Royal Library of Belgiun, Brussels.
London, Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2010.
ISBN 978-0-9541535-9-5. [Four papers in English and three in French.]
CERL Papers X is available to download here.

CERL Papers XI Virtual visits to lost libraries: reconstruction of and access to dispersed collections (Ivan Boserup and David J. Shaw, eds.). Papers presented on 5 November 2010 at the CERL Seminar hosted by the Royal Library of Denmark, Copenhagen.
London, Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2011.
ISBN 978-0-9569996-0-3. [Eleven papers in English.]
CERL Papers XI is available to download here.

CERL Papers XII La stampa romana nella città dei papi e in Europa/The Roman press in the city of the popes and Europe (Cristina Dondi, Andreina Rita, Adalbert Roth and Marina Venier eds.). Papers presented on 11 November 2011 at the CERL Seminar hosted by the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano.
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2016.
ISBN 978-88-210-0970-9. [Nine papers in Italian, six in English and one in French.]
CERL Papers XII is available to download here.

CERL Papers XIII Signa Vides - Researching and recording printers' devices (Michaela Scheibe and Anja Wolkenhauer eds.). Papers presented on 17-18 March 2015 at the CERL Workshop hosted by the National Library of Austria, Vienna.
London, Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2016.
ISBN 978-0-9569996-1-0. [Eight papers in English.]
CERL Papers XIII is available to download here, or order your Print on Demand copy from Lulu.com.