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  • 611 OPEN MRI Libraries Collections Endowment in the Classics in Honor of Sue and Joe Paterno (1999)
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  • Shulamith Simon ABRAMS Memorial Library Endowment (1989)
  • Ada M. Zellers ALBRIGHT Libraries Preservation Endowment (1999)
  • ALLISON-SHELLEY Collection (1975)
  • Harry M. ANDERSON Memorial Libraries Endowment (1994)
  • Margaret Silvernail ANDERSON Libraries Endowment (1991)
  • Michael P. ANDREWS Libraries Endowment for Technology (1994)
  • Walter S. and Mary C. ANESKO Libraries Endowment for the United Mine Workers of America Archives (1999)
  • James E. and Gail Scherrer ARNOLD Libraries Program Endowment (2003)
  • ASH Family Libraries Endowment in Jewish Studies (1998)
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  • John S. B. and Bernice M. BAMFORD Libraries Endowment (1991)
  • Mary Sullivan BARBER and S. Walter SWEET Arts and Humanities Collections Endowment (2000)
  • BAREFOOT Families Libraries Endowment (2004)
  • BARNES AND NOBLE Library Enrichment Fund (2006)
  • The BEAVER Memorial Fund (1917)
  • Marie BEDNAR Libraries Internship Program Endowment (1998)
  • Harold H. BENJAMIN Wellness Community Libraries Endowment (2005)
  • Louis and Virginia BEBZAK Business Librarian (1998)
  • Louis and Virginia BENZAK Libraries Collection Endowment for Business (1998)
  • Donald, Arlene, Matthew, Christopher and Mary Mai BERCHTOLD Libraries Endowment for Students with and Studies of Learning Disabilities (1998)
  • Jeanne BERKEY Libraries Endowment (1998)
  • Emerson W. BIRD Libraries Endowment for Preservation (1997)
  • George BLIGHT Agricultural Library Fund (1902)
  • Elisabeth S. BLISSELL Penn State New Kensington Libraries Endowment (1997)
  • Fred BOUCKE Memorial Library Fund (1959)
  • Roy Laurens BOVARD Renaissance Fund (1958)
  • Florence E. BRIDGEWATER Collections Endowment for the Engineering Library (2000)
  • Fletcher L. BYROM Earth and Mineral Sciences Library: Program and Collections Endowment (2001)
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  • CAPITAL Blue Cross Health Education Fund (2000)
  • Thomas C. and Mary H. CHASE Library Endowment (1987)
  • CLASS of 1907 The Pennsylvania State University Engineering Library (1960)
  • CLASS of 1932 Memorial Fund (1938)
  • CLASS of 1935 Libraries Endowment (1935)
  • CLASS of 1936 Endowed Library Fund (1986)
  • CLASS of 1957 Libraries Endowment (1990)
  • CLASS of 1960 Libraries Endowment (1986)
  • CLASS of 1962 Libraries Endowment (1992)
  • CLASS of 1966 Libraries Endowment (1991)
  • CLASS of 1968 Libraries Program Endowment (2001)
  • CLASS of 1984 Endowed Book Fund (1985)
  • CLASS of 1985 Endowed Book Fund (1986)
  • William A. COREY Memorial Libraries Collection Endowment (2002)
  • Charles L. COST Libraries Endowment (1995)
  • Lee H. and Kathryn M. CRAMER Library Endowment (1989)
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  • James E. DARKEY, Sr. Memorial Libraries Endowment (1993)
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  • Nancy L. EATON Libraries Endowment for Faculty Development (1998)
  • Robert EICHE Memorial Fund (2001)
  • ENGINEERING Graduate Student Council Libraries Endowment (1990)
  • Edwin G. ERNST Sr. Memorial Libraries Endowment (1991)
  • A. Howry and Erma ESPENSHADE Memorial Libraries Endowment (1992)
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  • J. Harvey FAHNESHOCK Endowment for Science Engineering and Rare Books (1994)
  • Ava FALTZ-MILLER Memorial Scholarship (1992)
  • John C. FARRELL Libraries Endowment in Music (1997)
  • Helen FAUST Special Collections Libraries Endowment (1996) 
  • The Jane FETTER Library Fund (1968)
  • Karl and Diane Wendle FINK Libraries Collections Endowment (2002)
  • Floyd B. and Naomi A. FISCHER Libraries Endowment (1995)
  • Stuart FORTH Libraries Endowment (1989)
  • Larry and Ellen FOSTER Communications Librarian Endowment (1998)
  • Lester H. FREEDMAN Memorial Fund (1934)
  • Zelma and Harris FREEDMAN Library Acquisitions Endowment in Jewish Studies (1992)
  • Renee Cohen FRIEDMAN and Robert S. FRIEDMAN Libraries Endowment (1994)
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  • Chris GAINES Memorial Libraries Collections Endowment (1999)
  • GEARHART Family Libraries Collections Endowment (1994)
  • James H. and Joyce L. GETTYS Libraries Endowment in the Math Library and in the School of Information Sciences and Technology (1999)
  • Harvey and Tessie GOLDBERG and Morris and Lillian KARASEK Libraries Endowment in Jewish Studies (1990)
  • Rick GOVER Libraries Endowment in Sports Archives (1998)
  • Philip M. and Susan C. GRESH Libraries Endowment (2000)
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  • Donald M. HAAG Libraries Endowment (1991)
  • HALEY Memorial Libraries Endowment (1998)
  • Sidney HALPERN Memorial Libraries Endowment (1996)
  • Dorothy V. HARRIS Libraries Endowment (1991)
  • Warren W. HASSLER Civil War Era Libraries Collections Endowment (1998)
  • The HASTINGS Libraries Endowment (1992)
  • HECHT Family Dean's Discretionary Endowment (2006)
  • Betty HEIN Libraries Program Endowment in Jewish Studies (1998)
  • J. Burn HELME Memorial Fund (1946)
  • Dorothy Taylor HENDERSON Dean's Discretionary Libraries Endowment (2006)
  • Dorothy Taylor HENDERSON Fund (2000)
  • Bridget and Heinz HENISCH Photo-History Collection Endowment (1998)
  • Elmer F. & Thelma Y. HINNER Libraries Endowment (1994)
  • Dennis W. HOGGARD, Jr. Memorial Libraries Endowment (1991)
  • James F. HOLLY Libraries Endowment (1988)
  • Permanent Endowment for the HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE Collection for the Library at Penn State Harrisburg (2002)
  • Mary C. and Paul B. HOOD Libraries Endowment for Environmental Studies (2000)
  • Burt B. HOUSEWORH Libraries Endowment (1996)
  • HRINYA Family Libraries Endowment for the School of Information Sciences and Technology (1999)
  • HUBER-NOBLE Library Fund (1968)
  • Dorothy Foehr HUCK Chair for Special Collections (1990)
  • Dorothy Foehr HUCK Libraries Acquisition Endowment (1998)
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  • James H. and Violet R. ICKES Libraries Program Endowment for Sports Archives (2000)
  • Thaddeus Stevens IRWIN Libraries Preservation Endowment (1996)
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  • Anne McDevitt JANIAK Endowment for Women's Studies (2000)
  • Anthony Richard JANIAK Endowment for Business Ethics (2000)
  • David and Mary Lee JONES Libraries Program Endowment in Communications (1998)
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  • KIRSCHNER Family Libraries Endowment in Jewish Studies (rev. 2008)
  • Kerry and Janice (Harms) KISSINGER Libraries Excellence Endowment (2002)
  • Robert and Carol KLAUS Libraries Program Endowment (1999)
  • Robert and Carol KLAUS Business Librarian Endowment (2008)
  • Barbara S. KLEIN Libraries Collection Endowment in Art History and International Affairs (2001)
  • Melvin KLING Libraries Endowment in Sports Archives (1998)
  • Leon R. and Elizabeth KNEEBONE Libraries Mushroom Reference Collection Endowment (1998)
  • Leon R. KNEEGONE Mushroom Reference Collection Endowment (1989)
  • KRUMRINE Family Libraries Endowment (1994)
  • Mary Louise KRUMRINE Endowment for the Charles W. Mann, Jr. Lecture in the Book Arts (2001)
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  • David G. LASHIN Memorial Fund (1973)
  • Lawrence C., Ruth J., and Evelyn F. LEMMON Social Sciences Libraries Endowment (1998)
  • Laurent LESAGE Libraries Collection Endowment for French Continental Literature (2005)
  • Dorothy L. LESH Endowed Lecture Series in Chemical Literature (1992)
  • Dorothy L. LESH Information Access Endowment (1994)
  • Dorothy L. LESH Libraries Endowment (1994)
  • Henry LEVINE Memorial Libraries Endowment (1991)
  • Arthur O. and Celeste J. LEWIS Utopia Collection Endowment (2002)
  • LIPPINCOTT Family Memorial Libraries Endowment in Memory of David and Carolyn Lippincott and James Lippincott (1989)
  • Roy N. and Ruth Hayes LOKKEN Library Endowment (1988)
  • Verna M. LOMBARD Library Endowment (2003)
  • Charles W. LUBIN Memorial Libraries Endowment (1989)
  • Herberta LUNDEGREN Libraries Endowment in Music (1997)
  • Randolph and Ellen LYTTON Libraries Collection Endowment (2000)
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  • Don and Marion MACKINNON Library Endowment in Biotechnology (1989)
  • Don and Marion MACKINNON Graduate Assistantships in the Life Sciences Library (1998)
  • MCCARTHY Family Dean's Discretionary Endowment (2006)
  • Cheryl and Douglas MCBREARTY Library Fund for the University Libraries (2006)
  • Mary Ann O'Brian MALKIN Program Endowment for Rare Books and Manuscripts (2003)
  • Candace and Patrick E. MALLOY Graduate Assistantship in the University Archives (1989)
  • Patrick E. and Candace MALLOY Program Endowment for the Education Library (1999)
  • Charles W. MANN Jr. Memorial Libraries Rare Books Endowment (1998)
  • Carl E. MARQUARDT, Ph.D. Libraries Program Endowment (2002)
  • George M. MIDDLEMAS Libraries Collection Endowment (1996)
  • George and Sherry MIDDLEMAS Program Endowment for the Arts and Humanities Library (2000)
  • James MILHOLLAND Rare Books Endowment (1985)
  • Ruby Skinner MILLER Atlas Fund (1981)
  • Leroy Orner and Gertrude Hoffman MYERS Libraries Endowment (1989)
  • Krebs and Harriet Bowman MYTON Libraries Endowment for Preservation (2001)
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  • NEW YORK TIMES Libraries Endowment (2004)
  • Carl J. and Matilda M. NITSCHE Libraries Collection Endowment (2000)
  • Jason Robert and Lee Ann Wasson NOLAN Libraries Collection Endowment (2003)
  • Robert J. NUROCK Libraries Endowment (1993)
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  • Roland and Trena OBERHOLTZER Libraries Endowment for Technology (1994)
  • Margaret Knoll Spangler OLIVER Libraries Award (1995)
  • Morris, Martha, Anne, and Mary O'NEILL Libraries Program Endowment (1999)
  • Paul and Betty OVES Program Endowment for the Education Library (1999)
  • Jesse L. and Mary Ann OWENS Libraries Program Endowment (2002)
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  • PA Blue Shield Education Fund (2002)
  • PATERNO Family Librarian Endowment for Literature (1998)
  • PATERNO Information Technology Endowment (1998)
  • PATERNO Libraries Endowment (1986)
  • PATERNO Library Technology Endowment (1998)
  • PENN STATE Alumni Association, Greater Phoenix, Arizona (1997)
  • Vesta PEPPERMAN Library Acquisition Endowment (1988)
  • Albert M. PETSKA Libraries Endowment (1997)
  • Arts and Humanities Library Collections Endowment in Honor of Sherry PETSKA and George MIDDLEMAS (2001)
  • Kenneth L. and Marion POLLOCK Digital Resources Center: Program Endowment (2002)
  • Kenneth and Marion POLLOCK Libraries Program Endowment (1999)
  • Marion and Kenneth POLLOCK Libraries Program Fund (1999)
  • Jack PONTIUS Libraries Collection Endowment in Communication (2003)
  • Robert and Sandra POOLE Graduate Assistantship in the Libraries (1999)
  • Libraries Endowment for PROGRAMS (2000)
  • Libraries PROGRAM Endowment (2000)
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  • QUINN-ANDERSON Libraries Collections Endowment (1998)
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  • Frederik and Ruth P. RASMUSSEN Libraries Endowment (1993)
  • Charles REDENIUS Memorial Book Fund (1992)
  • Donald O. RIEHL Libraries Program Endowment (2000)
  • James F. ROBB Fund (1990)
  • Margaret MacDonald ROEDER Memorial Libraries Endowment for Engineering (1993)
  • Margaret MacDonald ROEDER Memorial Libraries Endowment for Technology (1993)
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  • Louis W. SCHATZ Libraries Collection in Tree Genetics (1998)
  • The William A. SCHREYER Libraries Endowment in Global Management Policies and Planning (1989) 
  • SCHUTZ Family Program Support Endowment for the University Libraries (2008)
  • William W. SCRANTON Libraries Endowment (1993)
  • Irving SEGAL Libraries Endowment (1993)
  • Harvey SHIMP and Arletta May Fry ALTHOUSE Libraries Preservation Endowment (1998)
  • Ronald K. SIBLEY Libraries Collections Endowment for the Engineering Library (1999)
  • Douglas and Tracey SIEG Fund for the Pennsylvania Center for the Book (2000)
  • Judith O. SIEG Chair for Preservation in the University Libraries (1999)
  • William A. SLATER Fund (1979)
  • Thomas M. SMITH Libraries Collection Endowment for the Business Library (2002)
  • Mervin A. SNYDER Memorial Libraries Endowment for Jewish Studies (1995)
  • Edwin Erle SPARKS Memorial Library Fund (1925)
  • Libraries Endowment for the SPORTS Archives (1994)
  • Gerald Bernard Maxwell STEIN Libraries Endowment (2000)
  • Sylvia STEIN Memorial Libraries Endowment (1993)
  • Richard and Carol STEINHAUER Endowment for Graduates in the Schreyer Business Library (2004)
  • Scott STEINHAUER Libraries Collection Endowment for International Studies (2009)
  • Sandra K. STELTS and Ronald L. FILIPPELLI Exhibitions Program Endowment for Special Collections (2002, rev. 2006)
  • Sandra K. STELTS and Ronald L. FILIPPELLI Undergraduate Internship Endowment (2008)
  • Sandra K. STELTS and Ronald L. FILIPPELLI Undergraduate Internship in Rare Books and Manuscripts and Historical Collections and Labor Archives (2008)
  • Susan Conklin STUBBS Endowment for Undergraduate Internships and Graduate Assistantships in the University Libraries (2007)
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  • Elizabeth Epp TAFT Library Endowment (1988)
  • Jeffrey M. TENENBAUM University Libraries Endowment for Penn State Abington (2002)
  • TILEY Family Memorial Libraries Endowment (2006)
  • TOMBROS Libraries Endowment in Classics (1996)
  • TSCHAN Family Endowment for the Furtherance of Penn State Tradition (1986)
  • James A. and Sarah Jane TROLIER Libraries Program Endowment (2006)
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  • Robert E. and Joyce L. UMBAUGH Libraries Endowment (1996)
  • UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Astronomy Collection Endowment (1999)
  • UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Endowment (1994)
  • UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Life Sciences Faculty Staff Development Endowment (1998)
  • UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Professional Development Endowment (1991)
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  • John D. VAIRO Libraries Endowment (1992)
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  • Fred WARING America Fund (1985)
  • Peter and Karen WEILER Collections Endowment in Children's Literature (1998)
  • William L. WEISS and Josephine Berry WEISS Special Initiative Fund in the Libraries (1997)
  • John J. WERT, Jr. Libraries Preservation Endowment (2002)
  • Jeffrey C. and Patricia Rienzi WEST Libraries Program Endowment for Libraries Information Technology Instruction (2000)
  • Hal WILSON Libraries Collections Endowment (2005)
  • WINMILL Software Libraries Graduate Student Assistantships in Memory of Martha A. Laucius (1998)
  • Craig A. and Reba P. WOODROW University Libraries Acquisition Endowment (1996)
  • WORLD WAR II'S EIGHTH AIR FORCE Libraries Endowment (2006)
  • James E. WRIGHT Jr. Memorial Endowment in the Life Sciences (1998)
  • James E. WRIGHT Jr. Memorial Libraries Collections Endowment (1998)
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  • Terry YOCUM Libraries Endowment in Sports Archives and Business (1997)
  • George K. and Anna I. YONCHUK and John G. Sr. and Agnes A. YONCHUK Libraries Endowment in Russian Studies (1989)
  • Philip YOUNG Special Collections Endowment for the Libraries (1998)