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UNC-CH Receives $1 Million to Boost Its North Carolina CollectionThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Louis Round Wilson Library has received $1 million from the estate of benefactor Gladys Hall Coates for an endowment fund to benefit its North Carolina Collection. The UNC development office announced February 13 that income from the Albert and Gladys Coates Endowment Fund will support the research, writing, and publication of biographies of all former UNC-CH presidents and chancellors as well as Albert Coates, who with his wife and partner Gladys, founded the university’s School of Government in 1931. The endowment is also expected to provide funding for research, exhibits, web projects, and speakers on topics related to North Carolina. “We are grateful to Mrs. Coates not only for her generosity, but for the vision of her concept and the opportunity it provides for the university library and the North Carolina Collection,” said University Librarian Joe Hewitt. “We are pleased that the North Carolina Collection was chosen to carry out her intent.” The North Carolina Collection traces its origins back to the establishment of the North Carolina Historical Society, organized in 1844 by University President David L. Swain. After Louis Round Wilson became university librarian in 1901, he organized the North Carolina materials into a special department of the library. It now contains more than 120,000 books and 78,000 pamphlets, as well as numerous newspapers, maps, photographs, and other materials. Posted February 13, 2004. |
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