The Yale Library Associates
The Yale Library Associates was founded to support and strengthen the Yale libraries. Members are invited to lectures, exhibitions, openings, receptions, performances, and symposia throughout the year. Topics range from ancient texts to modern literature and music, and members are encouraged to share their interests with others. Since 1930, donations to the Yale Library Associates in the form of membership dues, individual gifts of money or books, and bequests have been essential in adding books and other research materials to the Yale Libraries.
Recently, the income from funds established by the Library Associates has aided the acquisition of materials so varied as a hand-written musical score by Charles Gounod, an illuminated sixteenth-century Persian manuscript, an eighteenth-century Russian volume incorporating elaborate plates of the plan of St. Petersburg, and one of the three remaining printed copies of the nineteenth-century German children’s book Max and Moritz by Wilhelm Busch. In honor of the Associate’s 75th anniversary in 2005, the Celebration Fund was created, which gives much-needed support for cataloguing and preserving the collections and providing worldwide access to some of Yale’s great riches through digitization.
In the past, gifts from members have been designated for the Yale Library Associate's Endowment Fund, which exclusively supports purchases of rare books and manuscripts, or the Yale Library Associate's Celebration Fund, which supports digitization, cataloging, and preservation. You may still designate your gifts for either or both of these funds, but in addition, you may now designate gifts for the Yale Library Associate's University Librarian's Discretionary Fund where they will be applied to any of the Library's current funding priorities. We are truly grateful for any and all support, needed now more than ever.
If you are interested in joining the Yale Library Associates, the annual dues are as follows:
Friend: $100 ($25 for students; $50 for Yale staff)
Sponsor: $250-$999
Patron: $1000-$4,999
Benefactor: $5,000 or greater
Life membership:
All those who have given $50,000 or more to the Yale University Library, whether cumulatively or in a single gift, will be recognized and honored as Life members of the Yale Library Associates.
Yale Library Associates who wish to make donations of over $50,000 may contact Benjamin Yousey-Hindes (contact information below) to discuss directing their gift to an area other than the three indicated above.
For more information about the Yale Library Associates, please contact:
Benjamin Yousey-Hindes
Assistant Director of Development
Yale University Library
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
(203) 432 8087 (phone)
(203) 432 1294 (fax)
benjamin.yousey-hindes@yale.edu
