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LC Gets $60 Million for Study Center, PrizeBillionaire John W. Kluge, president of Metromedia and longtime supporter of the Library of Congress, announced October 5 his donation of $60 million to the library, the largest single gift in LC’s 200-year history. The money will be used to establish the John W. Kluge Center for scholars in the library’s Jefferson building and a $1-million annual prize in “human sciences”—fields such as history, anthropology, sociology, and literary criticism—not covered by Nobel Prizes. The center will include endowed chairs in such broad areas as American law and governance, the cultures and societies of the North and South, technology and society, and modern culture. The first chairs will come into residence in 2001. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said the gift will “bring some of the world’s leading thinkers to the Library of Congress both to make greater use of the world’s greatest collection of human knowledge and to make their wisdom continuously accessible to the world’s most important lawmakers.” Kluge is the founding chair of the James Madison Council, LC’s private-sector support group, and one of two founding sponsors of the National Digital Library Program. Posted October 9, 2000. |
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