NCSU Libraries Focus Online

Volume 24 number 1 - Fall 2003

New NCSU Libraries Endowments: The NCSU Libraries would like to recognize the recent formation of the following library endowments. Endowments provide income that enhance the library's ability to purchase the books, materials, and technologies needed to sustain NC State University's intellectual excellence and to attract or retain key library faculty members.

Frank and Beverly Armstrong Endowment

(supports the NCSU Libraries' biological sciences collections in all formats)

Robert E. and Mary E. Beasley Endowment

(supports the NCSU Libraries' collections in all subjects and formats)

Micou and Katharine Browne Endowment

(supports the NCSU Libraries' management collections and entomological collections in all formats)

Jack and Joy Downs Library Endowment

(supports the NCSU Libraries' botany collections in all formats)

Fred and Elizabeth Ginn Endowment

(supports the NCSU Libraries' mathematics and genetics collections in all formats)

Frank and Eleanor Hart Endowment

(supports the NCSU Libraries' collections in all subjects)

Edmund Winslow and Dorothy Hilmer Nutter Library Endowment

(supports the NCSU Libraries' collections in all subjects and formats)

Banks C. and Louise W. Talley Endowment

(supports the NCSU Harrye B. Lyons Design Library's architecture and landscape architecture collections in all formats)

NCSU Veterinary Medical Endowment

(supports the enhancement and general development of the NCSU Veterinary Medical Library, including its collections, events, donor relations, staffing, operations, services, and facilities)

New Incubator Endowments: The NCSU Libraries created Incubator Endowments to provide an alternative for donors who want to support the library's collections but who would like more than five years to achieve full endowment status ($15,000). These accounts are named, perpetual funds administered by the NCSU Libraries within an endowment held by the NC State University Foundation. Incubator endowments may be created with an initial gift of $1,000 or more, and the donor may select a preference for a collection area.

Bonnie Lee and Maurice Baker Endowment

Chris and Odile Gould Endowment

David H. Greenlaw Endowment

Carolyn R. Miller Endowment

In Memoriam: Eloise S. Cofer

The NCSU Libraries lost one of its greatest supporters and advocates with the recent death of Friends of the Library life member Eloise S. Cofer, who died on August 25, 2003, in Raleigh. She was eighty-six years old.

A West Virginia native, Cofer graduated in 1937 from Marshall University and earned a master's degree from Columbia University and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. Cofer joined NC State's Agricultural Extension Service (later called the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service) in 1963 as assistant director for home economics. She was known for her work in leadership development for women and in desegregating the Cooperative Extension Service in the 1970s. Cofer retired in 1980. In 2001 she created the Eloise S. Cofer Endowment with the NCSU Foundation. This endowment provides unrestricted annual support to benefit four educational entities within the university: the NCSU Libraries, Arts NC State, the J. C. Raulston Arboretum, and the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service Foundation. Asked why she chose to support the Libraries this way, she said,

"Libraries are special. You can't have a good university without a good library. Libraries are basic to everything in education. Philosophically, I think libraries are the foundation of education. Maintaining the level of resources that research libraries like NC State's have just doesn't stop, so continuing support is critical."