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Jerry D. Campbell Dean's Fund
Jerry D. Campbell (MSLS '72) created this endowment fund to support SILS. Disbursement is at the discretion of the dean.
Campbell serves on the SILS Carolina First Campaign Committee. Currently, he is the Chief Information Officer/Dean of Libraries at the University of Southern California. Before working at USC, he served for more than 10 years as vice provost for library affairs and vice provost for computing at Duke University.
Carnegie Foundation Library Science Endowment
This gift from the Carnegie Corporation of New York established an endowment fund for the general support of SILS. Among other purposes, this fund is used to provide small grants to students for assistance with research costs associated with writing master's papers, research projects, dissertations or senior honors theses. Students are encouraged to apply.
Andrew Carnegie created the Corporation in 1911 to promote “the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.” The Corporation is a grant making foundation that seeks to carry out Carnegie's vision of philanthropy, which he said should aim “to do real and permanent good in this world.”
One of Carnegie's lifelong interests was establishing free public libraries to give everyone a means for self-education. From 1881 to 1917, he and the Corporation built 2,509 libraries throughout the English-speaking world. For about 40 years afterward, the Corporation continued an interest in improving library services.
Picture and information from www.carnegie.org
Dean's Fund
Established by the combination of gifts from the estate of Margaret Ellen Kalp and the Rockwell Fund of Houston, Texas, this fund is used at the discretion of the dean.
ibiblio.org
Paul Jones, director of ibiblio.org
ibiblio.org is home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet. It is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics and cultural studies. Its goals include expanding and improving the creation and distribution of open source software; continuing the University of North Carolina's programs to develop an online library and archive; hosting projects that expand the concepts of transparency and openness; and serving as a model for other open source projects.
ibiblio.org operates in partnership with the Center for the Public Domain, UNC at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science, School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Information Technology Services.
Please visit the ibiblio homepage at http://ibiblio.org.
Unrestricted Fund
This fund is used to supplement operating funds provided by the state for SILS.