Acquiring, preserving and making accessible library materials in all subject areas remains our topmost priority and critical need.  By making a gift or establishing an endowment, you may support a particular field of inquiry while making a philanthropic statement that will be honored in perpetuity.  Books of Honor allows you to add to the general collection fund by paying tribute to a friend or loved one.  In addition, there are a number of naming opportunities in two beautiful buildings, the Student Learning Center, opened August 2003, and the Special Collections Building, which is on the Regents' list of Capital Projects, and still several years away from construction.

Key segments of our collection were established through gifts of personal collections.  Gifts of materials (including books, manuscripts and journals) are very important to enhancing our holdings, and we are especially grateful to those who have chosen to donate their personal collections to the UGA Library, thereby making them available to the scholarly community for teaching and research.

Planned gifts are designed for those who wish to support the UGA Libraries in a significant way but do not have the flexibility to make an immediate outright gift.  There are numerous ways to help ensure the long-term success of the Library through a planned gift, ranging from simple bequests to sophisticated estate planning strategies that may be financially advantageous for the donor as well.

Additional ways of giving