Your support sustains and advances the work of WVU Libraries and promotes the research of our students and faculty in solving real-world problems for our state and beyond. Make a gift today.
Where You Can Help
WVU Libraries counts on passionate, loyal and caring members of the Mountaineer family, like you, to grow and continue the work. Your support empowers us to create incredible opportunities, to truly go above and beyond.
- WVU Libraries Greatest Needs (2U060) provides for the physical and technology services available to students, faculty and WVU alumni on campus, from home and around the globe
- Special Initiative Programming (2V892) like the “Food Justice in Appalachia” exhibit currently installed at the Downtown Library.
- Art in the Libraries ' programming offers a distinctive learning environment that creates engaging exhibits as an incubator for ideas that stimulate conversation, inquiry, discovery, and reflection. Explore our exhibits past and present.
- The WVU Libraries Veterans Committee is committed to providing a broad range of services to the community of WVU student veterans including designated study rooms Downtown and at our Evansdale Library.
- Building our newest collections such as the WV Feminist Activist Archive (2W1553) or the WVRHC Military History Collections (2W1521)
Make your donation to any of these areas using the designated gift code.
Giving for a Lifetime
Establish an Endowment
Establishing an endowment is one way to ensure funds are available annually for a particular need. Endowments can be designated by the donor to support Library resources for a specific program within the University or to remain unrestricted to meet the most critical needs. When naming the endowment, a donor may choose to create it in their own name or to honor a loved one or a favorite professor.
Leave a Legacy
Many choose to look toward the future by including a bequest in their will. There are multiple planned giving options. A bequest could be used to create an endowment or to direct funds to a particular area of interest. There are multiple methods to fund a bequest. Learn more about making a gift through a will or living trust by visiting WVU Foundation Planned Gifts.However you choose to help the WVU Libraries, it will be greatly appreciated. To discuss making a donation, creating an endowment, or writing a bequest, please contact Paula Martinelli at (304) 293-0304 or paula.martinelli@mail.wvu.edu.
A Friend of the WVU Libraries
A great university requires a great library, and private giving is essential to a great library. The WVU Libraries count on friends who understand that the Libraries are central to the University’s mission.
Friends of the WVU Libraries will receive Ex Libris, our bi-annual magazine, and invitations to special events and receptions at the Libraries. You can become a Friend with an annual gift of $60. Individuals who establish an endowment or make a planned gift become lifetime members of the Friends.
Become a Friend of WVU Libraries with your donation today or you may also make a check payable to WVU Libraries and mail to:
Friends of the WVU Libraries
WVU Libraries - Access Services
P.O. Box 6069
Morgantown, WV 26506-6069
For more information about the Friends of the WVU Libraries, contact Paula Martinelli,
Director of Development, at
(304) 293-0304 or
paula.martinelli@mail.wvu.edu.
Gifts of Books and Materials
West Virginia University Libraries welcome and encourage gifts of books and materials for the libraries that support the University’s curriculum and research objectives.
The Libraries review gift volumes for retention. Needs of the collection, individual subject collecting practices, and physical condition are all factors in retention decisions. Items in poor physical condition will not be retained except by prior special arrangement with the West Virginia & Regional History Center.
The Libraries do not accept conditions with regard to the processing, retention or housing of gift items. The Libraries may add items to the collection, sell or dispose of items in accordance with University policy, or donate items to other libraries if more appropriate for another collection. Proceeds from the sale of donated materials which are not added to the collection will support the acquisition of new library materials.
Because the Libraries do not accept conditions as to retention or treatment of individual items or collections, the Libraries encourage individuals to contact the Collections Strategist or the West Virginia & Regional History Center directly in cases of unusual gifts or large collections needing individual attention. Gifts appropriate to the Libraries’ circulating collection are evaluated by the Collections Strategist. Gifts appropriate to the rare books or special collections are evaluated by the West Virginia & Regional History Center. Contacts are listed below.
The Libraries encourage donors to consider, for their own interest, obtaining an appraisal of their gifts for income tax purposes prior to donation. The Libraries do not create or retain a listing of donated items and will not be able to provide information other than the number of items donated.
To be accepted, all gifts must fall within the guidelines of the Libraries’ collection development policies. Some basic guidelines are listed here:
- Print journal issues are not added to the collection when access to the same content is available in an online format. Back issues of print journals are generally not added to the collection with the exception of rare materials or issues that fill a gap in our holdings.
- Textbooks are not routinely added to the collection, except in response to specific faculty requests. Gifts of textbooks currently used by a WVU course will be added to the Shining Minds collection.
- Mass market paperback or trade paperback editions are not added to the collection, except in cases where it is the only edition available in print. Exceptions are made for titles appropriate to one of the leisure reading collections.
- In general, the Libraries do not retain duplicates or items in poor condition.
Contacts:
- Collections Strategist – librarycollections@mail.wvu.edu, 304-293-9755
- West Virginia & Regional History Center
Contact
Our development office is prepared to talk with you about any interest you may
have in making a gift to the WVU Libraries.
Director of Development