Merge pull request #46 from Brown-University-Library/carlos

Merge PR 46 from Carlos.
Merge pull request #47 from Brown-University-Library/carlos

Added a new template for the people page.
switch a couple http calls to use requests instead of urlopen. Also set a timeout value on the requests.
Merge pull request #48 from bcail/master

switch a couple http calls to use requests instead of urlopen. Also set ...
Merge branch 'master' into carlos