Jesuit Books and Libraries in Europe, 1540s-1770s
The European Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project
This is the largest census of books owned by European Jesuit institutions prior to the suppression. It includes both texts currently held in libraries and information from pre-1773 inventories, and is an ongoing project created by Kathleen Comerford (Georgia Southern University).
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The EJLPP depends not only on libraries willing to share their collections, but on student interns. Our tenth assistant, Baoxin Lau (BA student), completed her semester with us in Spring 2021! Since then, we've had four more students, including the prize-winning Mady Bullard (see the About Us section for more), who is currently pursuing a degree in Library and Information Studies at Valdosta State. Students have created and maintained the Digital Commons site, worked on biographies for Jesuit authors, and helped me create the lists of women printers. I'm so proud of the work they all have done, and grateful to Georgia Southern for its support of student and faculty research.
Team AY 2021-2022
Donna Sanders is a third-year B.A. Honors History major at Georgia Southern University (Armstrong Campus). She is a non-traditional student, returning to higher education after three decades in the private sector. Her anticipated graduation date is the spring of 2023. She plans to attend graduate school. Her interests center on women’s roles and impact on societal and political change throughout history. Her professional background includes senior management of sales and marketing in the private sector and analytical and logistic work for the Federal Government.
She and her husband of twenty-three years have three daughters. In addition to her fulltime degree works, Donna manages their household as her spouse is often away serving in the U.S. Military. Donna is also the sole fulltime care giver for her mother. In her free time, Donna enjoys painting, researching her Scottish heritage and historical documentaries.
Donna's professional background is very helpful in continuing our attempts to interpret the data.
We haven't finished the data visualizations she contributed to just yet--but that information is very important for our continuing work. Thanks, Donna, for all the hours you put in on detailed work, and for the blog you contributed.