Income suports the Department of Chemistry Library. Income purchases books for the library in the Department of Chemistry. Income purchases books for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Lord was a professor at OSU from 1878 to 1911. Lord Hall is named in his honor.
Income purchases technical books, primarily in the field of Engineering.
Svehla was an OSU alumnus and earned bachelor degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering, plus a masters degree in electrical engineering. Income purchases physics books. The Cole endowment fund is named for Professor Alfred Dodge Cole, the fourth chair of the Physics Department. The original endowment was for the establishment of a Physics Library within the Mendenhall Laboratory of Physics. In 1930, the new Cole Memorial Library began operation, with Professor Cole's private collection as the nucleus of the library collection.