WishList, INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ENGAGEMENT (continued)
Library Exhibits Fund
Exhibits make the library’s world-class collections available to the widest possible audience and afford unique opportunities for programming and publication. Library exhibits span all disciplines and explore everything from niche interests to major contemporary issues. A donor-named endowment will strengthen and grow the exhibit program by supporting staff, improving exhibit spaces, funding programs, and more. $200,000 or above
Special Collections Library Renovation
A gift to name the Special Collections Library will create a space suitable for this magnificent collection, which includes some of the most historically significant treasures at the University of Michigan – the Galileo manuscript, John James Audubon's The Birds of America (18271838) and the Kelmscott Chaucer. $TBD LEADERSHIP
Conservator Endowment
Marc Morisseau (BFA, 2009) used the library’s industrystandard hardware and software to become an expert in motion capture technology, an animation technique that applies real-world movement to digital characters. Today he’s a successful motion capture artist in Hollywood, working on top-tier games and feature films, including the sequel to Avatar.
Thanks to a generous $1.25 million matching grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the library created its first endowed conservator position. This grant offers a donor the unique opportunity to fully endow and name this position. $1 Million
Taubman Health Sciences Library Director Endowment
This will support the top tier leadership that enables the Health Sciences Library to deliver excellent health and biomedical information services to the university’s health sciences schools and programs, to its basic and clinical research systems, and to the U-M Health System. $2.5 million
Head, Special Collections Library Endowment
This will ensure that the Special Collections Library has the leadership and expertise necessary to maintain worldwide prominence and relevance for students, faculty, and researchers. $2.5 million
Neil Zemba (BFA, 2013) was an undergraduate when he joined Detroit Treads, a Detroitbased startup that’s creating shoes from recycled seatbelts and abandoned tires. Neil based the design of the shoes on a 3D model of a foot that he obtained via the library’s laser-scanning service. He went on to use the library’s rapid prototyping technology (aka 3D printing) to create the molds for the shoes.
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THANK YOU
Gioacchino and Carolyn Balducci
For the purchase of The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue
Joshua Bilmes
For the purchase of Cruchley's New Plan of London
Michael K. Burns
For the purchase of Almanacco dell'architetto in honor of Eleanor J. Burns
Richard C. and Judith H. Fuller
For the purchase of four books in architecture including Perspectiefteekenen voor bouwkundigen (Perspective Drawing for Architects) and Pioniere der sowjetischen Architektur (Pioneers of Soviet Architecture)
Verena Ward
For the purchase of Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer and for Higher Education Institutions and Learning Management Systems Adoption and Standardization