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Former Secretary (2002–2009) of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL).
CERL activities include
- the HPB Database (Heritage of the Printed Book in Europe), an online catalogue of European printing up to c.1830
- the CERL Thesaurus, an online finding aid for place names and for personal names of authors and of printers and publishers of the hand-press period
- the CERL Portal, a distributed database of online manuscripts and early printed books catalogues
- Provenance information, on-line data recording previous owners of books in the hand-press period
Chairman of Publications Committee for Canterbury Archaeological Trust, and
Chairman, Friends of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust.The Bibliographical Society : Chairman, Publications Committee; President, 2002–2004. Specialist in the history of printing in Europe (especially France) in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Awarded personal research rating of 5* in the national universities Research Assessment Exercise in 2001.Author and tutor (with Sarah Gray) of two modules on Rare-Books Librarianship for BSc by distance-learning at Department of Information Studies at Aberystwyth University (Prifysgol Aberystwyth). Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Kent (previously Senior Lecturer in French, retired August 2002). Member of the local early music group The Canterbury Waits, playing alto shawm, renaissance recorders, renaissance flute, tenor crumhorn, tenor and bass curtal. Member of The Musick Cabinet
Treasurer of Southern Early Music Forum DLitt conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury, 7 September 2004, in recognition of work as Editor-in-Chief of the Bibliographical Society’s Cathedral Libraries Catalogue project. (Degree of Doctor of Letters) Work in progress
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