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Secretary of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL).
The Consortium’s purpose is to facilitate the sharing of resources and expertise between research libraries in Europe in order to improve access to, as well as exploitation and preservation of the European printed heritage in the hand-press period (before c.1830).
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
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.Fellow of the Rare Book Society (2004)
Chairman of Publications Committee for Canterbury Archaeological Trust, and Chairman, Friends of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 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
Committee member of Southern Early Music Forum, representing East Kent
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
- ‘The Library of the Reverend Joseph Mendham’, to appear in the Winter 2008/2009 issue of Biblis.
- (with Sarah Griffin) ‘William Somner and his books: provenance evidence for the networks of a seventeenth-century Canterbury antiquarian’
- ‘One book, five printers: Shared printing in early sixteenth-century Paris (Franciscus Lichetus, Commentaria, Paris, 1520)’: article on shared printing in early sixteenth-century Paris and the identification of the printers who produced the complex pattern of different sections of this theological work.
- ‘A book list of an early sixteenth-century English humanist: George Marshall’.
- ‘A newly discovered French medical incunable: Sir John Mandeville, Le lapidaire en francoys’, [Lyon, c.1495].
- Catalogue of the British Library’s books printed in France, 1501–1520.
- Bibliography of editions of the Satires of Juvenal (Decius Iunius Iuuenalis) printed before 1601.
- Bibliography of books printed in Paris by Pierre Vidoue (Petrus Vidouaeus), 1517–1544.
Recent publications:
- Imprints and owners: Recording the cultural geography of Europe. Papers presented on 10 November 2006 at the CERL Seminar hosted by the National Széchényi Library, Budapest. Edited by David J. Shaw. London: Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2007 (CERL Papers VII). v + 84p. 13-digit ISBN 978-0-9541535-6-4, 10-digit ISBN 0-9541535-6-1.
- ‘Serialisation of Moll Flanders in The London Post and The Kentish Post, 1722’. The Library, 7th series, 8, no. 2 (June 2007) 182–192. ISSN: 0024-2160 (online version: 1744-8581). [Abstract] [PDF of full text]
- 'The Book Trade comes of age: the sixteenth century'. Chapter 16, pp. 220–231, in: Blackwell Companion to the History of the Book, ed. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, Blackwell Publishing, 2007. ISBN: 9781405127653, ISBN10: 1405127651.
- Many into one: Problems and opportunities in creating shared catalogues of older books. Papers presented on 11 November 2005 at the CERL conference hosted by the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome. Edited by David J. Shaw. London: Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2006 (CERL Papers VI). viii + 126 p. ISBN 0-9541535-5-3.
- ‘Retail distribution networks in East Kent in the eighteenth century’. Pp. 197–205, in: Worlds of Print: Diversity in the book trade, edited by John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong. British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2006. xiii + 240 pp. ISBN 0-7123-4937-5. (Paper given at the annual British Book Trade History conference, University of Edinburgh, July 2004).
- Books and their owners: Provenance information and the European cultural heritage. Papers presented on 12 November 2004 at the CERL conference hosted by the National Library of Scotland. Edited by David J. Shaw. London: Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2005 (CERL Papers V). xiv + 104 pp. ISBN 0-9541535-3-7.
- ‘An unrecorded STC item: Johannes de Garlandia’s Multorum vocabulorum equivocorum interpretatio, Paris, 1502’. The Library, 7th series, 5, no. 4 (December 2004) 359–69. ISSN: 0024-2160 (online version: 1744-8581)
- European Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: Creation, Access and Preservation. Papers presented on 13 November 2003 at the CERL conference hosted by the National Library of Russia, St Petersburg. Edited by David J. Shaw. London: Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2004 (CERL Papers IV). viii, 64 p. ISBN 0-9541535-1-0.
- ‘Introduction’. In: Books beyond frontiers: the need for international collaboration in national retrospective bibliography. Papers presented on 8 November 2002 at the Bibliopolis Conference on ‘The Future history of the book’ hosted by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague. Edited by David J. Shaw. London: Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2003 (CERL Papers III). x, 49 p. ISBN 0-9541535-2-9.
- ‘French émigrés in the London booktrade to 1850’. Pp. 127–143 in: The London book trade: Topographies of print in the metropolis from the sixteenth century, edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote. Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2003, xvi, 185p. ISBN 0-7123-4832-8. (Paper given at a conference on the London booktrade, November 2002).
- ‘Andreas Belfortis, first printer in Ferrara: a revised chronology of his output, 1471–1478’, La Bibliofilia, 105/1 (2003). pp. 3–25. ISSN: 0006-0941
- (with Sarah Gray): Advanced rare books librarianship. Module DS36310 for the BSc Econ/Diploma in Information and Library Studies by Open Learning. University of Wales Aberystwyth. May 2003. ISBN 1 898831 80 7
- ‘French-language publishing in London to 1900’. In: Foreign-language printing in London, 1500–1900, edited by Barry Taylor (Boston Spa & London: The British Library, 2002) 282 pages, 234 x 156 mm, 30 b/w ills, hardback. (pp. 101–22). ISBN 0-7123-1128-9. £30.00
- The Slave Trade. Books and pamphlets on slavery and its abolition printed before 1900 in Canterbury Cathedral Library, compiled by Clare Gathercole, revised by David Shaw, with a Historical Introduction by David Turley. (Canterbury Sources 3). Canterbury, 2001. 128 p. ISBN 0950 13924 6.
- In Foreign Parts : Books and pamphlets on the world beyond Western Europe printed before 1900 in Canterbury Cathedral Library, compiled by Helen Southwood, revised by David Shaw, with an Introduction by Glenn Bowman. (Canterbury Sources 2). Canterbury, 2000. 128p. ISBN 0950 13923 8.
- (with Sarah Gray): Introduction to rare books librarianship. Module IL36210, BSc Econ/Diploma in Information and Library Studies by Open Learning. University of Wales Aberystwyth, 2001. ISBN 1 898831 60 2.
- ‘Canterbury’s external links: book-trade relations at the regional and national level in the eighteenth century’, in: The mighty engine: the printing press and its impact, ed. P. Isaac and B. McKay, Winchester, St Paul’s Bibliographies, 2000. Pp. 107–119. ISBN 1-873040-61-X
- ‘The lost first editions of Gabriel Meurier’s Colloques ou nouvelle invention de propos familiers, printed by Plantin, 1556–7’, Quaerendo, 29/1 (1999), 41–51. ISSN 0014-9527.
- ‘Quire numbers in books printed by Antoine Aussourd’, The Library, 6th series, 20, no. 4, December 1998, pp. 364–366. ISSN 0024-2160
- ‘Clément Marot’s humanist contacts in Ferrara’, French Studies, 51, no. 3, July 1998, pp. 279–290. ISSN 0016-1128
- David J. Shaw (Editor-in-Chief), and others, The Cathedral Libraries Catalogue. Volume Two: Books printed on the Continent of Europe before 1701 in the libraries of the Anglican Cathedrals of England and Wales. London, The British Library and the Bibliographical Society, 1998, 2 vols, xvi + 1686 p. ISBN 0 7123 0654 4
- David Shaw and Sheila Hingley (and others), Canterbury Cathedral Library: Catalogue of pre-1801 printed books. Adam Matthew Publications, Marlborough, 1998. ISBN 1 85711 086 2. 24 pp + 17 microfiches.
- ‘La bibliologie in France’, in: The Book Encompassed: Studies in Twentieth-century Bibliography, edited by Peter Davison. Oak Knoll Books, New Castle DE, USA. 1998, paperback reprint. ISBN 1-884718-63-9. pp.206–14.
- David J. Shaw and Sarah Gray, ‘James Abree (1691? – 1768) : Canterbury’s first "modern" printer’, in: The Reach of print : Making, selling and reading books, ed. P. Isaac and B. McKay, Winchester, St Paul’s Bibliographies, 1998. Pp. 21–36. ISBN 1-873040-51-2
- John L. Flood and David J. Shaw, Johannes Sinapius (1505–1560), Hellenist and physician in Germany and Italy, (Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance, t. CCCXI), Geneva, Librairie Droz, 1997, viii + 304 p. ISBN 2-600-00207-3
- ‘Unrecorded French Incunables in the Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena’, The Library, sixth series, 19, iii, September 1997, pp. 197–220.
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