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Library Preservation Hits the Jackpot
at the University of North Carolina

The University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill Library has received a gift of $3.4 million to preserve materials housed there.

The bequest, which comes from the estate of 1937 UNC alumnus Thomas Jack Lynch, is the largest the campus has ever gotten, according to the August 4 Raleigh News and Observer. University officials have announced that they will create an endowment for the money, whose proceeds will be used to microfilm deteriorating print materials.

Lynch, whose wealth came from real estate investments, also made bequests to Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina; Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Hillsdale (Mich.) College.

Posted September 7, 1998.

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