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Development Is Team Work

Key Principles of Development

Team work-development is not a solo act, but requires orchestration

Giving streams – we do more with less by focusing on priorities

Criteria forSuccessful Development

Flexible staffing – desirable in good times, critical during budgetary constraints

Responsiveness – always essential in all things

Development IsEverybody’s Business

Dean’s Development TeamAssociate University Librarians (AULs)

Development and PR Staff

Faculty

Staff and Student Workers

Friends

Development Is Basedon Library’s Priorities

Excellence in service through facilities, collections, and staff

Access and responsiveness

Vision 2020 goals

On Spirit/One VisionCampaign Priorities

Preservation – shared conservation and storage facility

Scholarly Reputation – strengthening collections in traditional and emerging areas

Service – attracting, retaining, and rewarding outstanding faculty, staff and student workers

Built Environment – enhancing and maintaining inviting library spaces

Development ShouldSupport Instruction/Research

“To faculty at Texas A&M, the library IS our laboratory, it IS our archaeological excavation

James Rosenheim, Professor of Historyand Director of Glasscock Center

for Humanities Research

site, it IS our million-dollar piece of state-of-the-art hardware.”

Strengthening & RewardingFaculty and Staff is an Organization

and Development Priority

Internal – library faculty & staff

External – university faculty & staff

How Development Supports Library Faculty and Staff

McLemore Fund – provides funds for advanced study and degrees to faculty & staff

Eight Endowed Professorships – awards to senior faculty

McLemore Educational Opportunity Scholarship

Endowment amount: $500,000

Type of awards Faculty pursuing

masters or doctorates in their library specialties

Staff pursuing advanced degrees in their library specialties

McLemore Educational Opportunity Scholarship

Number of awards: 19 since inception in 1998

Total awards amount 1998-2003: $58,079

Average award amount: $1K – 2K

McLemore Scholarships:It’s not the amount of the gift,

it’s the results

3 PhDs completed 5 Masters completed Archival, languages,

and technical training for 11 staff & faculty

Promotes career advancement, diversity

Endowed Professorships

Who: Senior faculty with administrative and/or scholarly achievements

Why: a library’s reputation is only as good as its faculty

How: Funded from streams of unrestricted gifts & Friends

Other Gifts that SupportStaff Development

Louise Davis Memorial Staff Awards – 15 awards over 9 years ($1000 each)

Louise & James W. Davis Library Opportunity Scholarships – 9 student awards annually ($500)

Roberts, Huss, Sumner, and Hamill Foundation Student Worker Opportunity Awards – 4 annually ($1000 each)

Continuing Gift Streams

Memorials Aggie Muster

volume Friends – Madeley

Fund, preservation and other special projects

Secret to Successful Fundraisingat Texas A&M

Virtues of SuccessfulLibrary Development

Priorities Persistence Patience