Ambassador Joseph John Jova

Georgetown is honored by a gift from Ambassador Joseph John Jova of correspondence, documents, and other material from his long career in the United States diplomatic service. His early service was in Spain, Portugal and Chile, after which he was Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, and the Organization of American States. Ambassador Jova also gave to the library several hundred books on the art, literature and history of Spain and Latin America. He is a Library Associates trustee and has helped obtain important collections of books.

Raymond S. Sayers Luso-Brazilian Collection

Professor Raymond S. Sayers has donated to Georgetown his extensive collection of more than four thousand volumes of Portuguese and Brazilian literature, history, art and culture. This research collection was assembled by Professor Sayers during his teaching career at Columbia, Harvard, Wisconsin and other universities. Among the many important research resources in the Sayers Collection is Historia de Portugal nos Seculos XVIII, published in Lisbon in 1860-69.

China and Japan

The library has received from Dr. William Whitson more than 1300 books and journals pertaining to economic, political, and military matters in China and Japan. This collection contains several years of the Survey of China Mainland Press and much valuable material for study and research. Dr. Whitson's collection was acquired for Georgetown by Professor Ray S. Cline.