The Monroe Library is lauded as a beautiful, welcoming, technologically advanced facility, and it is the intellectual and social center of campus. In 2003 the library won the Association of College and Research Libraries Excellence in Academic Libraries award, and was cited as a model of what academic libraries are and will become. You can ensure that the Monroe Library maintains its leadership role among university libraries by investing in a library endowment fund. Endowment opportunities begin at $10,000, and attached to each endowment gift is a naming opportunity. Contact Mary Lee Sweat, Dean of Libraries, at 504-864-7047for more information. Contributions may also be made online.

SPECIAL INITIATIVES

The Monroe Library seeks to endow special initiatives which support teaching and learning at Loyola. One such initiative is the Fund for Emerging Technology.

CURRENT NEEDS

The Monroe Library seeks funding for current needs, including carrels for graduate and honors students, Special Collections exhibit cases, enhancements to the Library Instruction classroom, furnishings for the music tower, and banners to designate areas of the library.

FACULTY & STAFF ENDOWMENTS

The Monroe Library seeks to establish named endowed chairs and professorships and to create endowed funds that support the work of the library faculty and staff. Opportunities include:

• Loyola Library Scholar
• Professorship for the Library of the Future
• Professional Development Fund
• Student Assistantships
• Instructional Technology Librarian

COLLECTION ENDOWMENTS

The Monroe Library seeks to establish named collection endowments to support the research of faculty and students now and in the future. These include:

• Catholic Fiction Authors
• Environmental Studies
• Nursing
• Social Justice
• Children's Literature
• History of the Book
• Popular Film Collection
• Southern Literature
• E-book Collection
• Jesuitica Preservation Fund
• Women's Studies

SPACE ENDOWMENTS

The Monroe Library offers a number of space naming opportunities, including faculty research studies, reference offices, group study rooms, collaborative research study, multimedia classrooms, and a computer lab.