Curricular Foundations
Depending upon the amount, these gifts can endow an entire collection––from acquisitions to preservation––or a book or electronic resource fund to purchase materials in areas of growing interests or need. The funds could be allocated to traditional formats, such as books and journals, or electronic and mixed media formats, including film, audio, databases, and slides.
Examples:
Sciences and Medicine
• Biology (electronic journals, backfiles) $750,000
• Chemistry (book sets, electronic journal backfiles and databases) $600,000
• Expanded electronic journals and backfiles $1,000,000
Social Sciences
• Political Science,(particularly International Relations and Foreign Policy: monographs, newspapers, primary source materials and databases) $400,000
• Business and economics (databases) $500,000
• Urban studies $350,000
• Expanded electronic journals and backfiles $250,000
Humanities
• American Civilization (databases, primary source materials) $400,000
• History of Art (monographs, exhibition catalogs, digital images) $200,000
• Lusophone collections (Portuguese) $400,000
• Music (popular music of the world) $200,000
• Comparative literature (primary texts, translations, criiicism) $200,000
• Performing Arts (especially theatre, speech and dance) $200,000
• German studies (databases) $350,000
• General contemporary fiction (novels, poetry, plays) $400,000
• Expanded electronic journals and backfiles $250,000
Amount: $200,000 - $1,000,000