The minimum amount of money required to establish an endowment at City College is $10,000, and the library started raising money to create a Jewish Studies Library Endowment just over a year ago.  With donations from Mr. Bernard Bernbaum (’34), Mr. Eugene Herscher (’47), and the Moses L. Parshelsky Foundation, that goal has been reached. A resolution will go forward to the CUNY Board of Trustees for its approval in January 2001. With the creation of the endowment, the principal will grow as years go by, and the income it generates will always be used to support the library collection.  Since the endowment can be enlarged at any time, additional donations are still most welcome.

Endowment income accounts for nearly all the funding the library has available to purchase books for the collections each year, since our tax levy budget supports serials subscriptions and electronic resources.

For more information on endowments please click on the Endowments button under Library Friends on this web site.

More Gifts to the Library

The J.M. Kaplan Fund has established two endowments honoring CCNY Alumnus Maurice Austin (’25) at City College, one in the Division of Science, and the other in the library.  The $450,000 earmarked for the library will generate income to purchase new collections of databases, indexes and journals for the sciences, architecture and engineering.

A bequest from the estate of Ms. Dorothy Fahs Beck gives $100,000 to the library in memory of her late husband, Hubert Park Beck, a member of the CCNY faculty from 1947 to 1977.  This gift will be used to expand and enrich collections in education.

Mr. Josh S. Weston (’50), distinguished alumnus and 1999 recipient of an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, commemorated the 50th anniversary of his graduation with an unrestricted gift of $10,000, which Interim President Stanford A. Roman, Jr. has designated for the support of library collections.

Pamela Gillespie
Chief Librarian
prgcc@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu

CUNY: Before and After.... New in both brick-and-mortar and virtual bookstores, the publication From the Free Academy to CUNY: Illustrating Public Higher Education in New York City, 1847-1997 gives an overview of how CUNY, the City University of New York, came to be and what it is now. Written by City’s own recently retired librarian/archivist Barbara J. Dunlap, with Sandra Roff and Anthony Cucchiara, this book is a valuable addition to the history of the institutions that make up CUNY, the university system which came into being in 1961 when Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the bill into law thereby creating CUNY from the previously existing municipal colleges. Harvard Professor Nathan Glazer (’44)  notes that this profusely illustrated book records [CUNY’s] distinction…and alumni and alumnae and New Yorkers in general will find it invaluable.” We make it easy to purchase your copy online…… You can do yourself and the library a favor by ordering a copy from Amazon.com through a link on the City College Library’s web site www.ccny.cuny.edu/library.   The library receives a small percentage of the sale of any book purchased this way from Amazon. The only extra step is clicking your way to Amazon from our web site. The cost is the same to you and you help us purchase more books for your college library!

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