Admission is free.
The exhibit, held in conjunction with Hispanic Heritage Month activities, opens at 2 p.m.on Sunday, Sept. 21 when the public is invited to a reception and initial viewing in the main lobbyof the library. The 20-panel exhibit surveys books that influenced ideas about the New World and shapedearly efforts at colonization. It ends almost two centuries later withthe Mexican poet Sor Juana, who is silenced by an unfriendly archbishop. Also included will betravel reports, philosophical and theological treatises, novels of chivalry, plays, poems and codicesby pre-Hispanic Aztecs and Mayas. Hispanic Heritage Committee members will present copies of some of the works discussedin the exhibit at the Sept. 21 opening reception.