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 Summer 2020
Sadie Ingram is a History major and Anthropology minor at Georgia Southern University (anticipated graduation: 2021). Sadie is a part of the Honors Program and the 2020-2021 President of the Pi Alpha chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, an honors historical society. She is interested in the American Civil War and the colonization of Africa and Latin America. Sadie’s proficiency in Spanish and interest in Public History and Latin America are what drew her to the European Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project. She worked on the Digital Commons archive and maintained the Instagram feed for summer 2020. Sadie's energy and dedication means we are nearly at 100% finished uploading the existing photographic archive to Digital Commons! Sadie, you did outstanding work this summer and really moved the project forward. Thank you, and best wishes as you move on to the next chapter!
UPDATE: Sadie completed her MA in Public History at Georgia Southern in 2023. Congratulations!
