The University Libraries are pleased to announce four important gifts that strengthen collections and support outreach to the Loyola community.
John and Terese Mulkern Terry, both Loyola alums of the class of 1959, have made a $1 million donation to University Libraries. John Terry, a business major, and Terese Terry, a theater major, met at Loyola more than 50 years ago. Their generous gift will establish two endowment funds—one to purchase electronic resources in business and communications, and the other to establish a lecture series managed by the University Libraries. We thank Mr. and Mrs. Terry for their support.
The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as the BVMs, recently awarded a $4,000 grant to the Women and Leadership Archives. The seed grant is intended to help digitize a portion of the Mundelein College audiovisual collection. The digitization project, which focuses on the most important and fragile items in the AV collection, will be executed this fall. As soon as possible, selective short excerpts from the digitized material will be made available through the University Libraries digital collections (ContentDM).
The University Libraries are also the proud recipients of some rare and valuable book donations. We recently received a copy of the Polish language edition of the 1529 Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, given to us by Mr. Anthony Rudis. The statutes were the first code of laws written in Europe since Roman Law. We were also fortunate to receive two very valuable first editions of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn from Mr. Hunt Unger of Evanston. Thank you to Mr. Rudis and Mr. Unger for their generousity.
