Donor Spotlight

Marian L. Gotshall The Gotshall-Yeats Collection from Marian L. Gotshall of Plymouth, Michigan is a rich collection of nearly 200 titles by and relating to the great 20th-century Irish poet, William Butler Yeats. The Gotshall Collection includes many first editions, 72 volumes of scholarly and reference works about Yeats, and 34 titles from the Dun Emer Press (later called Cuala Press) run by Yeats’s sister Elizabeth.  Lee Blanke The Leonella Jameson Blanke Collection consists of books, periodicals videos and magazines in support of the curriculum and activities of the Nancy Held Equestrian Center. Leonella ("Lee" Wilcox) Jameson Blanke, Class of 1949, donated the collection in 2004 and continues to support the development of the collection through donations.

2007-08 Donors

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Special Giving Opportunities for 2007–2008

The Save-A-Book Program We need your help to save our copy of the 1611 King James Bible! The Bible has been in the collection since the 1940s and came to us with excessive water and insect damage, missing pages, and deteriorated leather binding. The work to repair and preserve the book so that it can be used for teaching and curriculum support requires the expertise of conservation professionals. For additional images of the King James and information on the program, see Save-A-Book. Cost: $6,500

Encyclopedia Judaica The 22-volume second edition of this work came out in December 2006. The first edition of Encyclopaedia Judaica was lauded as the standard work on Judaism since first appearing in the early 1970s. For the second edition, over 2,600 new entries have been added and 11,000 have been extensively revised and expanded. This reference work includes more than 21,000 signed entries on Jewish life, culture, history and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. Cost: $1,995

Encyclopaedia of Islam Online, 2nd ed. This is an essential academic resource, containing articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, tribes and dynasties, the crafts and sciences, political and religious institutions, geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of various countries and history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. It also encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all other Islamic countries. Initial Cost: $12,360   For more giving opportunity ideas, please see Supporting the Library.