What Gifts Have Done in the Past

Private support has enabled the University Libraries to serve the UI and the state of Iowa by acquiring new materials and resources; offering distance learning, resource sharing, and educational programming; renovating facilities; and more. Here are just a few examples of how gifts have helped the Libraries fulfill their mission:

• Baldwin Maxwell, a former UI professor and chair of the English department, left nearly $70,000 to the University Libraries -- as well as equal amounts to two other UI areas -- through a planned estate gift. Maxwell died in 1988, and had established a charitable trust that provided life income for his wife, who died in 2000. The unrestricted nature of the gift allows the Libraries to direct the resources to where they are needed most.
• California-based Angora Ridge Foundation made a gift of $100,000 to the UI Libraries to recognize the significance of the Libraries' fine press collections and the work of the UI Center for the Book. With the gift, the Libraries purchased 28 fine press books by book arts publisher Vincent FitzGerald.
• The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine, Iowa, gave nearly $270,000 to launch the Science Information Literacy Initiative, designed to train UI science majors to navigate, analyze, and apply the growing body of science information available from print, electronic, and multimedia sources.

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