NCSU Libraries Focus Online

Volume 28 number 3 - Spring 2008

Development Updates

By Michael Gulley, Senior Development Officer

New Library Endowments

The NCSU Libraries would like to acknowledge the incredibly generous support that it has seen over the past months. In just three months, more than $75,000 have been added to the Libraries' Endowment through the establishment of four new full endowments and the creation of nine new Incubator Endowment accounts. Contributors to the NCSU Libraries are ensuring that the Libraries will benefit students and faculty in their research, teaching, and learning for many generations to come.

New Full Endowments

The NCSU Libraries would like to recognize the recent formation of the following library endowments. Endowments provide income that enhances the Libraries' 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.

Henry McDonald Tate Memorial Endowment in Computer Science for the NCSU Libraries Fellows Program--supports the professional development of a new librarian as the Henry McDonald Tate Computer Science Library Fellow who will focus, whenever possible, in the area of computer science and especially as related to the digital library (in keeping with Tate's remarkable legacy as one of the first graduates of the NC State Computer Science Department).

Irving S. and Helen Haft Goldstein Endowment--supports the NCSU Libraries' collections in social work, cellulose, and renewable resources in all formats.

Robert G. Sargent Endowment--supports the Robert G. Sargent Collection, including all efforts to process, maintain, preserve, and provide access to the collection.

Robert R. Buckley Memorial Endowment--supports the NCSU Libraries' collections in mechanical and aerospace engineering, and political science in all formats.

New Incubator Endowments

The NCSU Libraries created Incubator Endowments to provide an alternative for donors who want to support the Libraries' 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.

Boxill/Ruth Endowment for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research

Charlotte and Leroy Martin Endowment

George and Reba Worsley Endowment

John and Wanda Canada Endowment

Kristen Antelman Endowment

Nancy J. Kuivila and W. Robert Maddin Endowment

Safran Law Offices Endowment

Simulation Archive Endowment

William and Silvia Dry Endowment

Status of the Corporate Partners Program

The Libraries would like to acknowledge the following companies for their significant and consistent support, by recognizing the year that they joined the program and providing some information about each company. Private funding for the library provides vital enhancements critical to the fulfillment of the Libraries' mission.  Over the past two years, the number of outstanding businesses that support the NCSU Libraries with corporate partners memberships has increased substantially.

Life Members

Becton Dickinson and Company

Burlington Industries

IBM

Institute of Textile Technology

Invista

Mallinckrodt, Inc.

Progress Energy

Sigma Xi

Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., N.A.

Member Since 1995

Air Control Techniques, P.C.

Cotton Incorporated

Cree, Inc.

Member Since 1997

SAS Institute, Inc.

Member Since 1999

Bayer CropScience

Member Since 2000

Novozymes North America, Inc.

SCYNEXIS Chem. & Automation, Inc.

Member Since 2001

Athenix Corp.

Biolex, Inc.

Member Since 2002

Amphora Discovery Corp.

Cropsolution, Inc.

Member Since 2003

BASF Plant Science, L.L.C.

Chimerix, Inc.

Henkel Technologies

Member Since 2004

Forbo Adhesives

Research Triangle Institute

Member Since 2005

Flashpoint Technology

Metabolon, Inc.

Vector Tobacco

Member Since 2006

Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Affinergy, Inc.

BioLeap, L.L.C.

Collegiate Capital Management

Gilbane Building Company

Myers, Bigel, Sibley, & Sajovec

Nomacorc

SERENEX, Inc.

Member Since 2007

Agarigen, Inc.

Almac Diagnostics

Alte Biosciences, Inc.

Howard, Merrell & Partners

Innovation Research and Training

NarTest Technologies

Penny Longobardo & Company, P.A.

Targacept

Member Since 2008

CellzDirect, Inc.

Mediant Cambridge/Two Blades Foundation