The Annual Fund supplements the library's operating budget by supporting special needs and initiatives. It provides funding for professional development, essential in today's fast-changing academic library, for library faculty and staff. The Annual Fund also enables the Monroe Library to respond to new developments in educational technology.

Library donors may restrict their annual fund gifts to the library through the university's online giving form. Or donors may take advantage of special giving opportunities. These include the Parents Annual Fund and Library Legacies.

Each spring the Monroe Library invites parents to support a teaching and learning initiative in the library. These projects vary from year to year, but the goal is always to enhance student learning. Past projects include Education on the Move, Library Living Room, Virtual Reference Service, Imagination on the Move, Student Technology Expert Program, and Laptop Loan Program. The Monroe Library thanks the Loyola parents who funded these projects. Their generosity ensures that our students will continue to have access to the best facilities and equipment available.

Contributions may also be made online.

Library Legacies was founded by Nash Roberts, H '84, a great friend of the library and a former member of the Library Visiting Committee. Your Library Legacies gift will be used to purchase materials for the libraries' collections. Items will be marked with commemorative bookplates, giving the name of the donor and the name of the person honored. Additionally, information about the donor and honoree will be placed in the bibliographic record in the online catalog, and the honoree or family will be notified of your thoughtful gift.

A Library Legacies Gift can:

• Honor a loved one
• Acknowledge an accomplishment
• Celebrate a birthday
• Remember an anniversary
• Thank a parent
• Show appreciation to a favorite professor
• Commemorate a graduation

...and it will support educational excellence at Loyola for years to come. Keep the Monroe Library vibrant by contributing to Library Legacies. A minimum gift is $50.00.

You may give online or print, complete, and return this form [pdf] to the address listed.

Strong collections aren't built in a day, a week, or a month. It takes years and years of buying books that represent the best scholarship from the best minds. You can ensure that the Monroe Library has ongoing support for building the collections that our students and faculty need and deserve.

For $2,012, in celebration of 2012, the university's centennial year, you can invest in the Books Without End: The Centennial Collection Fund and give one book per year to the Monroe Library. Each year the interest generated by your gift will be used to buy a needed title for our collections. The library will place a bookplate bearing your name, or the name of a person you wish to honor or memorialize, in the book.

Through your gift, you will help us build the foundation of a great library. To participate, contact Deborah Poole, Dean of Libraries, at 504-864-7133 or poole@loyno.edu.

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 $25,000, and attached to each endowment gift is a naming opportunity.

Contact Deborah Poole, Dean of Libraries, at 504-864-7133 for more information.

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.

ALYSSA M. TAYLOR BOOK ENDOWMENT

The Alyssa M. Taylor Book Endowment was established by her loving aunt, Nana, to honor Alyssa, a bright and promising Loyola freshman, who was killed by a teenage drunk driver. All who encountered Alyssa were captivated by her friendly charm, striking beauty and kind nature. Alyssa’s care for others and her love for reading are memorialized in this gift that annually goes to purchase new books for the Monroe Library.

BIENVENUE CLASSICS FUND

A gift from his former students, the Bienvenu Classics Fund was established to honor Fr. Emmett Bienvenu, S.J., for his life-long devotion to teaching the young and the not-so-young the beauties of the Latin and Greek languages and their literatures. The fund supplements the Monroe Library's collecting of materials in classical studies.

ROSALEE MCREYNOLDS ENDOWMENT FOR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

The family and friends of Rosalee McReynolds, Loyola's first Special Collections Librarian, established an endowment in her memory which purchases books for Special Collections. The focus of the endowment is the book as art and the history of the book, and supports Loyola's curriculum in the history of printing and also in bookmaking and design in the Department of Visual Arts.

SEGOVIA FUND

The Segovia Fund was established through a bequest of Andreas Segovia, the world-renowned guitar player and teacher, for the purchase of printed and recorded music for the guitar, music of Spain and its colonies, and Spanish literature. Mr. Segovia was a visiting teacher at Loyola during the 1970s.

MAILHES MUSIC FUND

Mona Mailhes (graduate alumna in Education) gave an endowment for the purchase of music materials in memory of her mother. Mrs. Mailhes was a great lover of music, and found special comfort in listening to music toward the end of her life. The Mailhes endowment in the Monroe Library is paired with an endowment in the College of Music for scholarships for music students.

CHARLES SENS OPERA ENDOWMENT

Charles Sens, an alumnus of the College of Music, had a distinguished career as a singer, dancer, and composer before undertaking a second career as a librarian in the Music Division of the Library of Congress. Charles left his large collection of opera recordings and many unique items, as well as an endowment to enhance the collection over time, to the Monroe Library.

WALKER PERCY AND HIS CIRCLE COLLECTION

The Monroe Library's Percy Collection is a gift of the research materials, both books and papers, of Fr. Patrick Samway, S.J., Ph.D., who is one of the biographers of Walker Percy, Louisiana's most well-known author of literary fiction. The collection of several thousand volumes, many signed first editions, as well as letters from Southern authors associated with Percy, complement the Percy archives at the University of North Carolina, Mr. Percy's alma mater.

GIROUX COLLECTION

The Robert Giroux Collection is a gift from the distinguished editor and publisher and his friend, Charles Reilly. Mr. Giroux edited many of the most distinguished authors of the mid-20 th century, including Walker Percy, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and others. The collection consists of approximately 900 volumes from his personal library, many inscribed to Mr. Giroux by his authors, as well as correspondence, photographs, and annotated proof copies.

Contributions can be made online.