Columbia Receives Bequest for Spanish-language Materials

-- Críticas, 8/15/2006

Columbia University Libraries received a gift of nearly $234,000 from the estate of Edith Virgilio, an alumna of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (class of ’46). The money was donated for the purchase of Spanish-language materials from Latin America and Spain.

Columbia will set up an endowment fund—the first there to focus specifically on these regions—to buy works of literature, literary criticism, and history. Materials purchased will support Columbia’s Spanish and Portuguese departments, as well as the Institute of Latin American Studies.

Columbia’s Latin American & Iberian Studies Librarian Pamela M. Graham will manage the fund. “[Ms. Virgilio’s] bequest will…benefit current and future generations of scholars," said Graham in a press release. “[Her] generosity toward the Libraries will serve not only the Columbia community, but all who have access to our collections through the resource-sharing programs in which Columbia Libraries participates.”

For further information, please go to: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/latam/about.html