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Why
Do We Seek Private Gifts?
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friends will ask us, "Why do you solicit private
gifts? Are they really needed? After all, the University
of Tennessee at Martin is a state institution." |
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We'll
let you decide after you view the following.
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Since
1993 magazine costs have increased 100%.
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Over
the last decade, overall library prices have
soared 145%, twice as much as national health
care costs.
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The
library's current endowment totals less than
most of our peer institutions.
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In
2001-2002 alone, our library costs soared over
8%.
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State
budget allocations have remained static for
a number of years, making private giving all
the more important for the library.
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The
University Library is at the core of a college
student's educational experience. Libraries provide
the link between individual people and humanity's
recorded knowledge. Collegiate study and academic
research in the modern world requires library
resources - lots of them. The Paul Meek Library
is the one educational department on campus that
has no alumni. In order to maintain first-rate
service, the Library must rely on financial help
from all university alumni and friends.
Join
us as we aid the "
divine gift of language and letters to outlive
us all.* "
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