Acknowledgements
This volume drew its inspiration from the conference Private libraries and private library inventories, 1665â1830: locating, studying and understanding sources. The conference was organised by Alicia C. Montoya and Rindert Jagersma (Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands) at the former Soeterbeeck Convent (Ravenstein) in January 2019 as part of the MEDIATE project (Measuring Enlightenment Disseminating Ideas, Authors and Texts in Europe [1665â1830]), funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unionâs Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 682022. The conference brought together over 50 scholars from around the world, and inspired us to put together a volume based on a number of the papers presented there, together with several additional especially commissioned contributions. The editors would like to thank those present for their participation in an engaging event. We are particularly grateful to Alicia C. Montoya and the rest of the MEDIATE team members: Micha Hulsbosch, Juliette Reboul, Joanna Rozendaal and Anna de Wilde for their enduring support. Finally, we wish to express our warm gratitude to all the contributors to this volume for their hard work, patience and commitment. This volume is one of the outputs of the BIBLIO project (Bibliography of Individually-owned Books, Libraries, and Inventories Online), funded by the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017 for Humanities. Publication of this volume in Open Access was made possible by the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.