NCSU Libraries Focus Online

Volume 26 number 3 - Spring 2006

Development Updates

By Jim Mulvey, Library Development

As NC State University's historic fund-raising campaign--Achieve! The Campaign for NC State--continues its march toward $1 billion, the NCSU Libraries' "Carousel of Knowledge" campaign is making steady progress toward its $10 million goal. By the end of December 2005, the Libraries' fund-raising total exceeded $7.6 million. The Libraries is especially pleased to acknowledge the following significant gifts received in late 2005.

Ann and Jim Goodnight have made another contribution to the Goodnight Educational Foundation Endowment for Special Collections. The endowment supports the Libraries’ special collections program, with a particular emphasis on exhibits. Income from this endowment is expected to help support the creation of a stunning exhibit on the life and career of NC State botanist B. W. Wells, known as the father of plant ecology. The exhibit will be the opening exhibition in the new gallery being created in the East Wing renovation of the D. H. Hill Library.

W. Trent Ragland III, one of the Libraries' campaign cochairs, has made a major gift in support of the renovation project. Wyndham Robertson, also one of the campaign's cochairs, made a generous gift toward the renovation as well. The renovation is expected to be completed in late 2006, when a new Special Collections Research Center and a Learning Commons will open, along with the exhibit gallery. Priorities for the capital campaign include:

1. improving and expanding library space [$3 million],
2. building outstanding collections [$3 million],
3. advancing digital library services [$2 million],
4. recruiting and retaining excellent librarians [$1 million],
5. applying unrestricted funds toward emerging opportunities [$1 million].

For more information about the "Carousel of Knowledge" fund-raising campaign, please visit the Web at www.lib.ncsu.edu/support/capital or call the Libraries' Director of Development Jim Mulvey at (919) 515-3339. For information on other ways of giving to the library, either through full endowments, incubator accounts, memorial and honorary gifts, or corporate partnerships, the following selection of development and Friends of the Library articles provide real-life examples.

Several Incubators Hatch as Library Endowments

Over the past few months, the NCSU Libraries has received a great number of donations in support of the capital campaign goal to build outstanding collections. Most of this support has been for endowments, which enable the Libraries to purchase important materials of great interest to its users. Endowments are an excellent way for donors to benefit students and faculty in their teaching, learning, and research for many generations to come. The rise over the past decade of the NCSU Libraries to the rank of twenty-seventh among North America's top 113 research libraries in the Association of Research Libraries is due in no small part to the investments in the collections made possible by endowment support.

The Friends of the Library is pleased to announce the creation of several new endowment funds. Each of these endowments began as an Incubator Endowment account. The Libraries offers an innovative program featuring incubator accounts for donors who want to support the library’s collections and want more than five years to achieve full library endowment status ($15,000). An incubator account is a named, perpetual fund that may be created with an initial investment of $1,000, and the donor may select a preference for a subject area.

All books purchased with income from an incubator are marked with personalized recognition bookplates. Since the establishment of the Incubator Endowment program ten years ago, more than 135 incubator accounts have been initiated, and forty-five have reached full endowment level. The following incubators are now established as full library endowments.

• Leonard W. and Eleanor M. Aurand Library Endowment--to support the NCSU Libraries' food chemistry and nutrition collections in all formats.
• Harlan C. and Helen A. Brown Endowment--to support the NCSU Libraries' collections in all subjects and formats.
• Guy L. and Margaret W. Jones Endowment--to support the NCSU Libraries' crop science collection in all formats.
• Elizabeth A. McMahan Endowment--to support the NCSU Libraries' entomological collections in all formats, with a preference for social insects, including termites, ants, bees, and wasps.
• Dr. Assad and Emily B. Meymandi Endowment--to support the NCSU Libraries' history and humanities collections in all formats.
• William D. Moser Jr. Endowment--to support the NCSU Libraries' collections in all subjects and formats.
• Barbara Bernhard Windom Endowment--to support the NCSU Libraries' collections in all subjects and formats.

In 1993 NC State faculty member Richard H. Bernhard and his wife Cynthia set up an Incubator Endowment in honor of their daughter's 1992 graduation from NC State with a B.S. in physics. The Barbara Bernhard Windom Endowment became a full endowment in 2006. Barbie Bernhard Windom, who also holds an M.S. in operations research from NCSU, became director of NC State's Undergraduate Tutorial Center in February 2006 after working in that facility since 1995. Dr. Bernhard, a professor of industrial engineering and the recipient of the 2004 NCSU Libraries Faculty Award, recalled setting up his incubator.

"In 1992 when I rotated off a five-year term on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Library and our daughter, Barbie, graduated summa cum laude in physics from NC State, my wife Cindy and I gave $1,000 to the NCSU Libraries. I suggested to [Director of Libraries] Susan Nutter that she use it for a big party for her staff. Susan made the much better suggestion of putting it into an Incubator Endowment, which was a new idea at the time. We've added to it each year ever since, and it's now up over the $15,000 required to make it a regular endowment. The step-by-step approach of the Incubator Endowment system is a marvelous way to make it possible for people of ordinary means, like us, to make significant and enduring financial gifts to the NCSU Libraries. We plan to continue to do this, and we strongly recommend this simple and easily achievable approach to others."

New incubator accounts created recently include the following:

David and Norma Mustian Endowment--to support the NCSU Libraries' religion collection in all formats.

Ed Weisiger Endowment--to support the NCSU Libraries’ engineering collection in all formats.

For more information about the Libraries’ endowments, please visit the Web at www.lib.ncsu.edu/support/endowments or call Director of Development Jim Mulvey at (919) 515-3339.

Building a Dream 101 Bricks At a Time

By Suzanne Weiner, Library Development

A big "thank you" goes out to all NCSU Libraries friends who ordered red or white commemorative bricks during the early stages of the D. H. Hill Library East Wing renovation. Proceeds from the sales of these bricks will be used to make the renovated space in the library more functional and attractive for NC State students and faculty. Requests for bricks, which are engraved with inscriptions specified by the purchaser, have been made in memory of loved ones or dedicated to colleagues, children, events, and of course to the much-loved Wolfpack! In January 2006 the Friends of the Library sent its first order for 101 bricks to be engraved, and the finished bricks are expected to be delivered by the end of April. These will be the first to be installed on the breezeway at the front entrance to the D. H. Hill Library. It is exciting to move from order forms to actual bricks, and once they arrive, the Libraries invites donors to come see their bricks before installation. It is not too late for those still thinking about ordering a brick for themselves, their families, or in honor of someone special to place an order. Ordering information may be found on the Web at http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/bricks/ or by calling the Friends of the Library at (919) 515-2841.