J Mente:
CLASS OF 1973
South Hills High SchoolClass of 1973
Pittsburgh, PA
J's Story
Janet Mente appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau
The beating heart of the institute; a huge support to researchers, students, and academic staff; attentive, service-minded, and modest; careful, warm, and friendly. Everyone who knows her agrees with these characterizations. Janet Mente fully deserves a royal decoration for the exceptional way she has been carrying out her job as librarian of KNIR’s vast book collection since 1998 and, as an American, guarding a piece of Dutch academic culture in R...Expand for more
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As a token of our great appreciation for all she has done for the institute, we further honoured Janet with the publication of the bilingual English-Italian edition of Gaetano Volpi’s Various Considerations, Both Useful and Necessary, for Lovers of Good Books, Arranged in Alphabetical Order (1756), a unique testimony of eighteenth-century bibliophilia and an amusing read that forms a perfect match with Janet’s expertise and sense of humour.
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