Thank you for considering a gift to the Georgia Institute of Technology Libraries. For more information about giving to the Libraries or to discuss philanthropic opportunities, contact the Development office at 404-754-3781 or email below.
Endow a Dean’s Chair: An endowed dean's chair provides a dean's discretionary fund to support innovative pilots, projects, and programs that align with the Library’s strategic plan and fulfill our academic and research mission.
Endow Public Programming and Outreach: Support for the Library’s innovative public programming and outreach will inspire audiences, share knowledge, and expand access for everyone in our community through lecture series, programming on various academic topics, and the Artist-in-Residence program.
Make Education Affordable -- Foster Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning: The costs of course materials have skyrocketed more than 1,000 percent since the 1970s. The Georgia Tech Library works to make education affordable. An endowment would support innovative solutions to ensure that faculty are partnering with the Library to provide students with the resources they need to be successful in the classroom, laboratory, and studio throughout their time at Georgia Tech.
Endow Archives and Special Collections: These endowments allow us to build our archives and special collections to represent better Georgia Tech's many areas of expertise and all members of our community. An endowment's additional resources help enhance and expand access to these collections for students, faculty, staff, and researchers worldwide.
Support Graduate Students: Support for graduate students allows the Georgia Tech Library to grow its capacity as a teaching library. Two major areas of graduate student support include:
Funding Opportunities within the Library:
Learn more about how you can support the Library priorities that will Transform Tomorrow.
Ways to Give
Many companies match the gifts of their current or retired employees. Your company’s human resources department can provide details on its policies and provide a matching gift form to include with your gift.
Bequests and other planned gifts are some of the greatest sources of funding for Georgia Tech. These gifts stabilize our financial foundation, securing the future of Georgia Tech while perpetuating a legacy of giving. There are several available tools, such as will or living trust provisions, retirement plan or life insurance assets, and other methods of including Georgia Tech in your gift planning. Please contact us with any questions.
Please contact the planned giving team if you have any questions or if you’ve already included us in your estate plan but haven’t documented with us: https://plannedgiving.gatech.edu/
The Georgia Tech Library benefits from donations of materials that support the teaching and research activities of the Institute as well as monetary gifts. The Library holds more than 6 million books, journal volumes and other items. This has been achieved because of material and monetary support of the campus administration and other friends of the Institute.
Donated gifts-in-kind have often helped to enhance the collection, particularly during periods when the Institute has been facing tighter budget constraints. Gifts of books and other materials, including faculty papers and related artifacts, can contribute a great deal to supplementing the Library’s acquisitions efforts.
Donations that are geared towards new programs or new initiatives can be enormously helpful in jump-starting the building of new collections. Presently, the Library is trying to build up its circulating Science Fiction collection, as well as trying to collect materials to support LMC’s new program in Film Studies. Individual gifts and gift collections in these areas are especially welcome.
Although donations are always welcome, the Library has limited storage capacity, and is therefore unable to add all donated material to our holdings. Donated material is carefully reviewed, and that material which is considered to best meet the needs of our university is selected. For subject area materials, please contact the appropriate subject librarian for assistance in reviewing your collection. Arrangements can be made to pick up donated items from on-campus locations.
When accepted, gifts become the property of the Georgia Tech Library with the understanding that they are to be used for the benefit of the Library. The Library reviews all gift material to determine retention, location, cataloging and other issues related to the gift’s use or disposition. Items that cannot be added to our collection are often sent to Better World Books, an agency which collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide. A portion of the proceeds from this agency are returned to the Library, and are used to help build our collections. Upon request, items can also be returned to the donor, if they are not added to our Library’s collection. This request must be made at the time of the donation.
Gifts will be acknowledged in writing. It is, however, the donor’s responsibility to create an itemized inventory, if needed for tax purposes (a Gift Materials Receipt Form is available for your use). When requested, gifts placed in the Library will be identified with a donor gift plate and included in the Library’s online catalog. Cash donations to help expedite processing as well as defray the costs of maintaining the material are greatly appreciated.
Contact: technicalservices@library.gatech.edu
Gifts to the Georgia Tech Library are tax-deductible. If the value of the material is estimated at more than $5,000, and a tax expert recommends an appraisal, it should be completed before the material is turned over to Georgia Tech. In keeping with professional guidelines and federal law, the Library cannot get involved in evaluating or appraising gifts. The Internal Revenue Service considers the Library an interested party, which therefore precludes appraisals made or financed by Georgia Tech. For this reason, the donor is responsible for obtaining an appraisal and paying for the costs of appraisals. Because of the high cost of appraisals, they are not generally recommended unless the collection is large or valuable. Library staff will assist donors in identifying an independent appraiser for tax purposes. Donors should consult the Internal Revenue Service website for specific questions regarding charitable donations.
