9 July 2007 CERL Seminar for Rare Books Libraries in the London area Dr David J. Shaw Secretary, CERL Consortium of European Research Libraries Wellcome.

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9 July 2007 CERL Seminar for Rare Books Libraries in the London area Dr David J. Shaw Secretary, CERL Consortium of European Research Libraries Wellcome Library, London

CERL London Seminar, 9 July 2007 Programme Welcome CERL and its work in the field of the European written and printed cultural heritage CERL’s resources for rare-books librarians and scholars Participation in CERL’s work Tea

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5 CERL and its work in the field of the European written and printed cultural heritage

CERL London Seminar, 9 July CERL’s mission CERL’s primary objective is to record the European printed heritage: all books printed in Europe during the hand-press period, i.e. before c.1830, in our Hand Press Book database. This has been extended to include cross-searching of manuscript databases (development project 2006–8) CERL aims to provide support and resources for rare books specialists (librarians and scholars). CERL’s Development Plan 2002–2007 is available on the web; 2008–2012 is in preparation

CERL London Seminar, 9 July CERL’s Mission (2) Publications Collaborative projects Support for scholarship Digitisation:  EDL participation  Scholarly resources (printers’ devices) Provenance research

CERL London Seminar, 9 July CERL’s logo Based on the printer’s device of the 16th-century Estienne (Stephanus) family in Paris and Geneva Represents the tree of knowledge (olive), with a branch dropping to earth

CERL London Seminar, 9 July CERL Membership The Consortium was formed in 1994 on the initiative of research libraries in many European countries. Over 70 member libraries in over 30 countries –36 Full members –16 libraries in Group memberships –22 Special and Associate members –90 ‘cluster’ libraries attached to a Full member.

CERL London Seminar, 9 July CERL members Belgium Croatia Denmark Estonia Finland (2) France (2) Germany (3) Hungary (1 group of 6) Italy (9) Latvia Luxemburg The Netherlands Norway Portugal Russia South America (ABINIA group of 10) Spain Sweden (2) United Kingdom (7) United States of America

CERL London Seminar, 9 July CERL’s resources for rare-books librarians and scholars

CERL London Seminar, 9 July CERL resources Hand Press Book Database CERL Thesaurus CERL Portal Provenance research Digital resources Publications Seminars and workshops

CERL’s resources The Hand Press Book Database

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Hand Press Book database (HPB) 2.8 million records for books printed in Europe from mid-15th to mid-19th centuries 24 contributing libraries, with more records added each year Full list of contributors on Only available in institutions which are CERL members Originally hosted by RLG; currently being moved to OCLC’s servers

CERL London Seminar, 9 July The HPB is searchable by Author Title Date range Language Keyword Etc. Imprint town Imprint word Imprint date Printer or publisher Holding institution Multi-lingual assisted searching Connect

Derived cataloguing Member libraries have the resources of the HPB available for downloading records for their own cataloguing projects The new OCLC interface will provide facilities for members to edit and update their own records on the HPB CERL London Seminar, 9 July

CERL’s resources The CERL Portal

CERL London Seminar, 9 July The CERL Portal : under development at the University of Uppsala Originally intended to perform distributed searching on manuscript catalogues using OAI protocol Current version can cross-search manuscript and printed books catalogues using Z

CERL London Seminar, 9 July

CERL’s resources The CERL Thesaurus

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Creation of the Thesaurus Developed for CERL by the Data Conversion Group at the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen Planned by CERL’s Advisory Task Group First launched in 1999 New user interface with enhanced facilities, 2006 Free resource available to the whole library and scholarly community

CERL London Seminar, 9 July The CERL Thesaurus The CERL Thesaurus contains names of persons corporate bodies places printers/publishers recorded in books or other material printed during the hand-press era (1450 – c. 1830).

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Data in the CERL Thesaurus Authority files contributed by CERL member libraries and other libraries and projects concentrating on the history of the book Searchable in one integrated system. Currently contains 655,584 records (last update: 2 July 2007)

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Data supplied by Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie Bibliothèque nationale de France British Library Cathedral Libraries Catalogue Die Deutsche Bibliothek Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague Kungliga biblioteket Sveriges nationalbibliotek, Stockholm Nacionalna i Sveučilišna Knjižnica, Zagreb

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Lugduni, Lyon, Lione, … The CERL Thesaurus file contains forms of names as found in material printed before the middle of the nineteenth century: Forms in Latin Forms in other European languages Variant spellings found in early books

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Cerl Thesaurus entry for St Andrews

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Who worked where? The CERL Thesaurus supports internal linking between imprint place names and imprint personal names. Users can find which printers or booksellers are recorded in the CERL Thesaurus as having worked in a specific town.

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Examples from St Andrews Clicking the “Related records” button opens a list of all imprint names for “St Andrews” Each name in the list links to the Thesaurus record for that person The record for Edward Raban gives links to his devices in CERL’s digitised McKerrow Examples

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Imprint names Printers, booksellers, publishers Biographical information Dates of activity Addresses Mottoes Devices Variant forms of names

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Personal names Authors, editors, commentators, illustrators, and others persons with intellectual and artistic responsibility for the work Variant forms in ancient and modern languages Can be used for Assisted Searching

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Personal names – example Publius Terentius Afer Terence Térence Terenz Terenzio …

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Personal names – example Publius Terentius Afer

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Merging names several records for many names (from different sources) Deduplication is being done –Automated: DCG, Göttingen –Manual: BSB Munich Examples

New Thesaurus interface New SRU interface for access to the CERL Thesaurus In use for Assisted Searching from the HPB and the CERL Portal from May 2007 Available for use by other databases and projects needing multi-lingual name variants CERL London Seminar, 9 July

CERL’s resources Assisted Searching

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Assisted searching (1) The CERL Thesaurus can be used to support effective searching in bibliographical databases Users do not need to know all possible variant forms of imprint names or place names. The Hand Press Book Database and the CERL Portal can retrieve variant forms from the CERL Thesaurus to use as search terms, which can substantially improve the effectiveness of the search.

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Assisted searching (HPB) Paris :: Lutetiae, Parisiis, Luteciae Parisiorum, Parisius, Paris, Parigi, … Search the Hand Press Book DatabaseHand Press Book Database Bologna: Simple search 3499 hits Assisted search 9225 hits Milano :: Mediolanum, Mediolanium, Medyolanum, Mailand, Milan, …

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Assisted searching (Portal) The Advanced Search screen of the CERL Portal also uses the CERL Thesaurus for assisted searching on –Places –Personal names Place = Firenze Simple search : 12 hits Assisted search :51 hits

CERL’s resources Provenance information

CERL London Seminar, 9 July

CERL London Seminar, 9 July From the new CERL web site

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Provenance names CERL is extending the Thesaurus to cover names of former owners of books More catalogues are now recording names of previous owners It is now possible to search for names which are recorded as owning books A link is offered to the catalogues recording these occurrences

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Provenance search Examples

CERL’s resources Digitisation

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Digitised printers’ devices McKerrow, Ronald B., Printers' & Publishers' Devices in England & Scotland London, 1913 Renouard, Philippe, Les Marques typographiques parisiennes des XVe et XVIe siècles. Paris, 1926 A programme of digitisation of other works is planned in cooperation with the Royal Library, Copenhagen and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Printer’s devices McKerrow, Printers' & Publishers' Devices : individual images extracted and linked in the Thesaurus Renouard, Marques: individual images extracted and linked in the Thesaurus Programme for further digitisation planned for 2007 and 2008 Examples

CERL’s resources CERL Thesaurus Scholars’ Notepad

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Scholars’ Notepad The CERL Thesaurus includes an annotations facility which enables bibliographers and scholars to exchange their views about the information recorded in CERL Thesaurus records. Annotations are also a basis for on-going quality improvement of the CERL Thesaurus.

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Example of an annotation Example

CERL London Seminar, 9 July The CERL Thesaurus Is available freely for public use Contributions are invited from –Libraries: authority files, etc. –Scholars: annotations and corrections Can be used for Assisted Searching under licence from CERL

CERL’s resources Publications

CERL London Seminar, 9 July CERL Seminar 2004 National Library of Scotland CERL’s 10th anniversary ISBN speakers from Scotland, France, Italy, Germany, Poland

CERL London Seminar, 9 July Joining in CERL’s work

Participation Many member libraries contribute Files for the HPB, Thesaurus and Portal Speakers for seminars and workshops Staff for committees and working groups Administrative help for collaborative projects Authors for publications CERL London Seminar, 9 July

Benefits Institution-wide access to the Hand Press Book Database for consultation Staff access to HPB to download MARC records for derived cataloguing Access to CERL’s member network for rare- books professional resources Copies of CERL publications Participation in developing CERL’s public access activities

CERL London Seminar, 9 July CERL members in the UK British Library, London National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth University of London Libraries (ULL and UCL) University of Oxford Libraries University of St Andrews Centre for Publishing Studies, University of Stirling

Recent new CERL members University of Bologna National Library of Luxemburg Senate Library, Rome Centre for Publishing Studies, Stirling University of St Andrews ABINIA (S. American national libraries group) Polish Rare-Books Research Libraries Group CERL London Seminar, 9 July 2007

Membership costs National libraries and similar: € 8,000 p.a. Specialist libraries, museums: € 2,500 / € 1,000 p.a. Group membership: € 8,000 + € 3,500 per member Special arrangements by negotiation All have access to HPB CERL London Seminar, 9 July 2007

A London Group? Is there interest in negotiating the formation of a London group of libraries with rare books holdings? Possibly incorporating the existing ULL / UCL members in a new package membership CERL would be very willing to discuss this with any interested participants

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