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December 29, 2008
7,000 books given to the College of Saint Elizabeth
Daily Record staff reports • December 29, 2008
MORRIS TWP. -- A West Orange couple recently donated about 7,000 books to the Mahoney Library at the College of Saint Elizabeth.
The books donated by Nathan and Aida Litwack arrived at Mahoney Library at the end of the spring term and ranged from literature to travel to illustration books. The library staff has been working diligently to process the collection and make the new resources available to the campus community.
“I am simply thrilled to have this donation of one person’s lifelong reading collection at the college,” said library director Amira V. Unver. “Many of these books in the collection are first editions and some are quite rare and are not owned by other academic libraries within the state.”
Nathan Litwack, who was born in Detroit, Mich., in 1918, attributes his lifelong love of books and libraries to his parents. His father, a pushcart peddler and later a small business owner, was a self-educated man who instilled in his family a love of books and learning, a statement from the college said. Litwack’s library reflects the diversity of his interests and, according to Unver, has enriched the library’s holdings in the areas of Jewish literature and studies, sociology and social history, labor relations, political science, and the arts.
Unver said the books are now available to researchers and readers across the country through inter-library loan.
In addition to the Mahoney Library, the library at the State University of New York in Purchase, the alma mater of one of the Litwacks’ grandsons, also received a substantial donation from their personal library, including a large collection of popular sheet music from the 20th century.
Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, the College of Saint Elizabeth, at 2 Convent Road, enrolls more than 2,000 full- and part-time students in 27 undergraduate, nine graduate and one doctoral degree programs.
Posted by tumulty at December 29, 2008 4:19 PM
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