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Gifts and Endowments for SEL

SEL is fortunate to have accounts established by or in honor of individuals associated with the disciplines SEL encompasses. Interest from these endowment accounts supplement SEL's budget allocation and extends access to information across time. In addition to endowed funds, SEL also wishes to recognize gifts in kind (books, journal, etc.), one time gifts for purchase of a specific book or other item, and funds designated for SEL's use by individuals and companies via Friends of the Libraries and the Campus Campaign. Gifts enrich not only those who come to SEL but also those who use our resources through OhioLINK, the statewide consortium of Ohio college and university libraries, and through interlibrary loan.

If you would like to remember or honor someone with a gift to SEL please contact an SEL Librarian.

Gift funds and Campus Campaign contributions may be designated for SEL or one of its collections by specifying account number 308498, and the collection your gift should enhance. SEL's collections are : Architecture, Chemistry, Engineering, Materials Engineering,Mathematics, Physics/Astronomy. (ex. 308498:Physics)

Endowment funds in SEL are:

Architecture
Department of Architecture Library Endowment Fund
Established July 11, 1986, by staff and friends of the Department. Income pays for architectural books in the Knowlton School of Architecture's library.

Chemistry:
Benjamin T. Brooks Family Memorial Fund
Established November 15, 1963, in his memory by his widow, his daughter, his sons and friends. Income funds acquisitions for the Department of Chemistry Library including books, texts, journals, magazines or documents.

William McPherson Library
Established December 11, 1939, by Mr. McPherson. Income suports the Department of Chemistry Library.

Charles Cutler Sharp Library Fund
Established October 20, 1922, by Mr. Sharp. Income purchases books for the library in the Department of Chemistry.

Engineering
Nathaniel W. Lord Memorial Library Fund
Established March 6, 1939, by Professor and Mrs. F.A. Fay and former students of Professor Lord. Income purchases books for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Lord was a professor at OSU from 1878 to 1911. He was the first Dean of the colloge of engineering, (1896-1901). Lord Hall is named in his honor.

Joseph G. Svehla Technical Book Fund
Established December 2, 1988, by designation and gift of Joseph G Svehla.
Income purchases technical books, primarily in the field of Engineering. Svehla was an OSU alumnus and earned bachelor degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering, plus a masters degree in electrical engineering.

Physics
Alfred Dodge Cole Memorial Lbrary Fund
Established January 13, 1960, by Charles F. Kettering, E.A. Deeds and others. Income purchases physics books. The Cole endowment fund is named for Professor Alfred Dodge Cole, the fourth chair of the Physics Department. The original endowment was for the establishment of a Physics Library within the Mendenhall Laboratory of Physics. In 1930, the new Cole Memorial Library began operation, with Professor Cole's private collection as the nucleus of the library collection.

Science libraries
Gamma Alpha Library Fund
Established October 2, 1981, by the Ohio State Gamma Alpha Association. Income purchases reference materials for the University Science Libraries.



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