A named endowment insures your recognition as a significant library benefactor in perpetuity, although your endowment can be anonymous if you wish. You can create a permanent endowment for a particular purpose, such as facility renovation, or to help build library collections in a field or discipline of your choice. Endowments may also be designated as memorial or honorary gifts, which can be identified with your name as well as the person remembered or honored. If you donate funds to establish an endowment, you will be invited to meet with the University Librarian and others to discuss your wishes for the endowment. Your involvement will continue as you are informed about your endowment growth and annual spending.
All donors receive annual mailings from the library about current projects and initiatives.
If you would like to make a contribution to the University Libraries but think it might be beyond your means, there are many options for planned giving. Planned giving enables you to spread your gift over a period of years, or to designate a future gift. Planned giving may involve financial assets, gifts of materials, or both. Among the opportunities for planned giving are outright gifts such as cash or marketable securities, deferred gifts committed during life, and bequests through your will. Over the years, we have acquired many treasured items from donors who have entrusted us to preserve their materials or collections, and to make them available to the greater community.