The Claire T. Carney Library seeks your support to expand as an educational and community resource There is currently a capital campaign underway to raise $6 million to transform the Claire T. Carney Library. The university needs your assistance in improving the library so that it can continue to be a rich resource for students, faculty, scholars, and the community. Funds raised will be used to:
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respond to students’ new learning styles, which are increasingly reliant on modern technology and collaborative approaches; offer improved areas for presentations, lectures, and meetings — formal and informal —that will engage students, faculty, and visitors; support scholarship by upgrading spaces for the library’s ever-increasing collections, complemented by new physical and virtual services to serve the region; provide the best accommodations for the special archival materials that distinguish the Claire T. Carney Library.
Among the recent gifts to the fund-raising campaign to update the library is a $150,000 contribution from former District Attorney Edmund Dinis. With his donation, Dinis establishes the Edmund Dinis PortugueseAmerican Political, Legal and Public Service Collection at the Ferreira-Mendes PortugueseAmerican Archives within the Claire T. Carney Library. Former state legislator and owner of New Bedford-based Portuguese radio station WJFD, Dinis has long been involved in the region’s politics and civic affairs, and played a lead role in promoting citizenship and voter registration among Portuguese immigrants. He joins many members of the Portuguese community in their efforts to raise a total of $1.5 million specifically for the FerreiraMendes Portuguese-American Archives.
Edmund Dinis is thanked for his gift by Chancellor Jean F. MacCormack and former State Senator William Q. MacLean, Jr., who co-chairs the Development Committee of the UMass Dartmouth Foundation with Robert Karam ‘67, former trustees’ chairman.
To learn more about the library campaign, go to
www.umassd.edu/librarycampaign