Library Finance and Development

The Library is funded entirely by the Institute, not by the campus library system. As such, the Library faces many cost pressures, including skyrocketing journal prices and the need to keep pace with rapidly-changing developments in information technology.

Gifts and Donor Support

Over the years the Library has had many generous benefactors. Library users often donate background materials from their own research. Some have given direct financial support for the purchase of materials and equipment. Others have donated books from their personal libraries. The Library is grateful to the many prominent scholars whose gifts have enriched the Library's core collection of books on political science and public policy.

To learn more about contributing to the library, visit the Friends of IGS webpage.

Library Benefactors (a partial list)

• Charles Aikin, Political Science, Berkeley. A bequest by Audrey Aikin established the Charles Aikin Public Law Book Fund.
• Robert and Doras Briggs, Berkeley, have donated many books to the Library, including an important collection on the Watergate Affair.
• Citizens' Research Foundation. In 1999 the Foundation's substantial collection of materials on money in politics was transferred to the Library.
• Heinz Eulau, Political Science, Stanford, has given the Library many key works in American political science.
• Victor Jones, Political Science, Berkeley. In the course of his long association with IGS, Professor Jones has donated many works reflecting his interests in federalism and regionalism.
• Martin Landau, Political Science, Berkeley, a particular friend of the Library, has donated many works on public administration and organizational theory.
• Peter Odegard, Political Science, Berkeley. Professor Odegard's personal collection became the Odegard Library of the Political Science Department at Berkeley. In 1992 the Odegard Library was transferred to the IGS Library, considerably enriching IGS Library resources.
• Mark Riordan, Political consultant, San Francisco, bequeathed valuable materials on practical politics and electioneering in California.
• Allan Sindler, Public Policy, Berkeley, has donated many important works on American politics.
• Dorothy Campbell Tompkins, renowned IGS bibliographer, was a lifelong supporter of the Library. In 1998 the Dorothy Campbell Tompkins Library Endowment Fund was established in her name.

Others who have made substantial contributions of books and other materials to the Library include: Thomas Blaisdell (Political Science, Berkeley), Randy Hamilton (Golden Gate University, San Francisco), Todd La Porte (Political Science, Berkeley), Eugene Lee (Political Science, Berkeley), Arnold Meltsner (Public Policy, Berkeley), Martin Trow (Public Policy, Berkeley), and Aaron Wildavsky (Political Science, Berkeley).