Give a Financial Gift

Your financial contributions are essential to fulfilling the mission of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) to collect, preserve, and share unique collections to enrich learning and encourage investigation by a diverse community of users. Due to the unique nature of these materials, financial support is important for 

• arrangement and description
• digitization
• preservation and conservation
• acquisition
• exhibition curation
• and many other vital operations

Your support of the Library Special Collections and University Archives Fund can help SCUA continue to provide access to these historically valuable materials and meaningfully build the collections. 

Read more about giving to the University Library or contact the library’s Senior Director of Development, Shelly Jordan.

Direct impact of financial gifts 

Thanks to financial gifts, SCUA was able to

• Purchase Epitome cosmgrafica by Vincenzo Coronelli.
• Purchase Épreuve du premier alphabeth droit et penché, ornée de quadres et de cartouches by Louis Luce.  
• Purchase Indians: photos by John and Mary Zielinski documenting the Meskwaki people.
• Purchase Thamar Andersen's nursing school notebook 
• Receive a donation to SCUA and Preservation Department of a SMA SCAN MASTER 0 3650 large format scanner.
• Purchase the two millionth volume for the Special Collections Department and the Library -- the rare 2-volume set Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventu' italiana written by the early woman scientist, Maria Agnesi
• Archival process the following collections: Rath Packing Company Records, Karl Fox Papers, the American Statistical Association records, the Beef Improvement Federation records
• Develop a virtual exhibit for the "The Road I Grew Up On," by Helen Gunderson