Word: spurr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During a fall 1994 visit, Enes Kujindzic, the director of Bosnia's national library, caught the ear of Andras J. Riedlmayer, a bibliographer in Islamic art and architecture in the University's Fine Arts Library, and Jeffrey B. Spurr, Islamic art cataloguer in the Aga Khan Program. They then began to help him spread the news of the libraries' plight...
Later this month, the effort Riedlmayer and Spurr began will culminate in a Sabre Foundation project, spearheaded by Harvard, which will ship 10,000 books to Bosnia to assist in the replenishing of the war-torn region's libraries...
...Things have gone better than I ever had hoped,...and it has been more complicated and time-consuming than I ever imagined," Spurr said. "It was an elaborate dance involving conversations and meetings and memos and e-mail, but we finally achieved results...
According to Spurr, an incendiary grenade which hit the National and University Library in Sarajevo in August 1992 was particularly destructive. It demolished 1.5 million volumes, including 155,000 rare books and manuscripts, and is considered one of, if not the largest book burning in modern history...
...Spurr said she later was told case workers had been asking acquaintances whether she was a good or bad witch. Dow Jones...