Collection Development

Count the benefits for Cornell math majors and their future students by endowing a fund to purchase math education literature for the Math Library.
$10,000 or more

Create an endowment to ensure the long-term growth of rare book collections established by Cornell's first president, A. D. White (including the French Revolution, Anti-Slavery, and Witchcraft collections).
$10,000 or more

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Preservation Gifts

Preserve a legal heritage for future scholars by funding conservation treatment and archival storage for fragile volumes in the Law Library's rare book collection.
$200-$500 each

Conserve (clean, deacidify, & repair as necessary) and digitize approximately one hundred 18th-century maps of Southeast Asia and Japan from the Library's Asia Collections.
$5,000

Reclaim history with an endowment to preserve Cornell Library's diverse collections for future generations of students, faculty, and scholars. Preservation endowments fund the repair of damaged volumes in circulating collections, restoration of crumbling rare books and manuscripts, and the preservation of fragile and unique items in new electronic formats. Bookplates crediting the donor's foresight and generosity are placed in all works preserved with endowment income.
$15,000 or more

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Digital Library Initiatives

Re-Live Your Student Years Online--Digitize one volume (an academic year's worth) of the Cornell Daily Sun. Cornell Library and the newspaper are collaborating to create a full-text, Web-based electronic archive of Sun issues. Click here for more info.
$5,000 or more per volume

Open the Library's collections and services to Cornellians far and wide by supporting the expansion of the Library's Alumni and Friends Access Service (this Web site!).
$2,000 or more

Help digitize rare books and manuscripts with a gift for new digital photography equipment. A complete equipment & software list is available. Examples include:
Color control tools: $200-700
Slide scanner: $1,500
Scanning station: $4,000
Lighting system: $5,000

Expand the audience for library exhibitions with a gift to create online versions of exhibits from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
$10,000

Support the Library’s Leading Edge Initiatives Fund, which supports the acquisition of new electronic resources, the digitization of collections for use in teaching, and expansion of online access to library resources.
Gifts at all levels are needed

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Endowment

Strengthen Cornell's library collections in perpetuity by endowing a named acquisition fund. Every volume purchased is identified with a personalized bookplate recognizing the donor’s generosity.
$5,000 or more

Create an endowment to ensure the long-term growth of rare book collections established by Cornell's first president, A. D. White (including the French Revolution, Anti-Slavery, and Witchcraft collections).
$10,000 or more

Enhance Cornell's rapidly expanding Religious Studies program by establishing a named endowment for the purchase of library materials on Christian or general comparative religious subjects.
$10,000 or more

Help students earn their way through Cornell by endowing a library student worker position.
$35,000

Preserve Cornell Library's diverse collections for future generations of students, faculty, and scholars. Preservation endowments support the repair of damaged volumes in circulating collections, restoration of crumbling rare books and manuscripts, and the preservation of fragile and unique items in new electronic formats. Bookplates crediting the donor are placed in all works preserved with endowment income.
$15,000 or more