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CERL
The Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) is a consortium of over 60 national and other large research libriares. CERL's principal aim is to assemble information about the written heritage of Europe in a unique central resource to assist all those across the world – scholars, teachers, students, librarians, booksellers and lay persons – who work in the field of interpreting European cultural heritage as it has been received in the form of books written or printed before the middle of the 19th century. CERL is responsible for resources such as the Hand Press Book Database, the CERL Thesaurus and the CERL Portal for Manuscripts. It also organises an annual workshops on topics related to book history and publishes the proceedings. The Consortium arose out of the First International Conference on Retrospective Cataloguing in Europe hosted in Munich in 1990 by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the British Library. Members of CERL are represented in the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors. Its Chairman is retired Professor of Book History at the Georg-August university in Göttingen, Dr Elmar Mittler.

Hand Press Book Database (HPB)
This online resource contains bibliographic records for early European printing c.1450 and c.1830 in major research libraries in Europe and North America (for full details on the contents of the database see www.cerl.org). The HPB Database is hosted by OCLC, and new files and updates to existing files are regularly added. In 2008 c.1.2 million new records are scheduled for loading into the HPB Database.

CERL Thesaurus
The CERL Thesaurus contains variant forms for place names, personal names and imprint names in 680,000 records derived from CERL members’ authority files. It is also the online access to CERL’s growing collection of digitised printers’ devices. An inbuilt annotations facility enables users to record additions and amendments, thereby furthering scholarly exchange. This makes the CERL Thesaurus an essential tool for scholars and researchers.

CERL Portal for Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
The CERL Portal aims to overcome the historical divide between research on printed books and manuscripts, by offering scholars and researchers integrated access to the contents of online databases of manuscripts and printed books.

Access to CERL Services
The CERL Thesaurs and the CERL Portal are freely available via the CERL website. The HPB Database is available for CERL members. Trial access may be requested.

CERL Members
Belgium Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels Croatia National and University Library, Zagreb Denmark Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen Estonia Academic Library of Tallinn University Finland Åbo Akademi University Library The National Library of Finland, Helsinki France Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon Germany Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz Hungary National Szechenyi Library, Budapest Italy Soprintendenza per i beni librari e documentari, Bologna Università degli Studi di Bologna Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence Biblioteca Umanistica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence Regione Toscana - Servicio Biblioteche, Musei e Attività Culturali, Florence Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples Centro di Ateneo per le Biblioteche, Università degli studi di Padova, Padua Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome Biblioteca del Senato della epubblica, Rome Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico, Rome Latvia National Library of Latvia, Riga Luxembourg Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg The Netherlands Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague Norway National Library of Norway, Oslo Portugal Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisbon Russia National Library of Russia, St Petersburg Spain Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid Sweden Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm Universitet Biblioteket, Uppsala United Kingdom National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh British Library, London UCL Library Services, Londonand | University of London Library University of Oxford Libraries University of St Andrews United States of America Yale University Library, New Haven

Web links
CERL website

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. 13-digit ISBN 978-0-9541535-6-4, 10-digit ISBN 0-9541535-6-1. [Six papers in English, with Hungarian summaries.]

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.]

Implementing Persistent Identifiers
Hans-Werner Hilse and Jochen Kothe, Implementing Persistent Identifiers: Overview of concepts, guidelines and recommendations. London / Amsterdam: Consortium of European Libraries and European Commission on Preservation and Access, 2006. ISBN 90-6984-508-3. PDF version http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-isbn-90-6984-508-3-8 (this is a persistent identifier).

John Michael Smethurst, Bibliography & Essays
John Michael Smethurst, Bibliography & Essays with Postscript (Ann Matheson, ed). Compiled by Michael John Crump. Essays by Franz Georg Kaltwasser & John Winthrop Haeger. Postscript by Henry Leonard Snyder. CERL Occassional Publications I. London, Consortium of European Research Libraries / Online Computer Library Centre., Inc., 2006. ISBN 0-9541535-4-5.