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(1999), "Other donors help libraries grow", The Bottom Line, Vol. 12 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/bl.1999.17012bab.008
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
Other donors help libraries grow
Other donors help libraries grow
Keywords: Funding, Gifts, School Libraries, Automation, USA
School libraries will benefit from Sagebrush Corporation's recent acquisition of Nichols. Any US-based school library that upgrades to the multi-user version of Athena from any non-Nichols library automation system before June 26 will receive $1,000$1,500 worth of titles from Econo-Clad Books (which Sagebrush also owns) and a $500 discount on the software.
Rolf Augustine, a librarian in the cataloging department at Santa Cruz's McHenry Library at the University of California, has given the library $100,000 to be used to preserve and expand the library's cataloging operations. This is the largest gift that the library has ever received from an individual. This gift, which came from a family inheritance, follows a previous gift of $10,000 to start a cataloging endowment. Margaret Gordon, library development officer and assistant to the university librarian, knowingly pointed out, "cataloging is something that's hard to educate external donors about." Six other staff members have given $10,000 or more since the library started a major development effort in the early 1990s.
The University of California at San Diego received a $300,000 three-year grant from the Luce Foundation to support the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance, an organization that facilitates access to scholarly research materials throughout the Pacific Rim. The consortium has 13 academic libraries in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, and the US.
Harvard University's Widener Library has renamed the Reading Room the Loker Reading Room in honor of Katherine Bogdanovich Loker, a philanthropist who has given $27 million to the university. Her most recent gift, $17 million, is being used to renovate the library.
University of South Florida (USF) Tampa Campus Library received $250,000 from the son of Doyle Carlton, the governor of Florida from 1929 to 1933. Carlton's gift and a matching $125,000 state grant will be used in the USF Library Resource Center for Florida History and Politics.