The voluntary library gift, a $50 donation from students each semester, allows for consistent funding of services, resources, and spaces at Libraries and Academic Innovation and supports ongoing improvements. The fund is nearly 30 years old and shows student commitment to improving a resource for everyone at the university.
Recently, the gift helped fund tangible improvements, including upholstered furniture at the libraries and modifications required to open the Global Resources Center as a 24/7 study space for graduate students. The gift also helped fund student jobs in the libraries, purchases of specialized software, and the Top Textbooks program, which makes expensive textbooks for select high-enrollment courses available via loan to all students.
Voluntary library funding has supported:
- 24/7 study space for graduate students
- student jobs in the libraries
- the Top Textbooks program
- new software and technology