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Exhibit/Speaker sponsorship: Exhibits, gallery talks, and guest lecturers enrich the academic and cultural experience of students, faculty and campus visitors. • University Libraries exhibit sponsor: $500 - $1,000 • Clarke Speaker Series sponsor: $2,000 • Clarke Historical Library exhibit sponsor: $10,000 Sponsor a student employee: Working at Park Library provides students income and valuable work experience in a professional setting. Likewise, student employees carry out important tasks essential to the successful delivery of library services. Due to budgetary constraints and minimum wage increases, we've had to limit the number of students we're able to employ. Help the Libraries and a student by sponsoring a student employee for a semester or for a year. • Sponsor a student employee: $2,000/semester For more information about any of these funding opportunities, or to discuss other ways you can help the Libraries provide the very best for CMU's students, please contact me at 989-774-1826 or megan.r.moreno@cmich.edu. Megan Moreno, '06 Director of Development and Community Outreach Many people show allegiance to their school by wearing a sweatshirt or ball cap, buying a specialty license plate, or attending an occasional sporting event. Some choose to give back to the university that helped shape their future. However, what better way is there to support your alma mater than to support the library? Central Michigan University donors, including non-alumni friends, can impact all our students by helping the Libraries provide them with access to authoritative scholarly resources, the latest technology, and opportunities to engage with authors, artists, and scholars in their fields. An investment in the CMU Libraries enables students to have the tools they need to write their own success stories. Here are some of the current needs of the Libraries for which your support could truly advance the student learning experience at CMU. Collections: The cost of scholarly journals continues to rise faster than the library budget. You can make an impact in the coming year by helping us maintain access to valuable scholarly resources. • Sponsor a journal for one year: cost is variable by subject Technology: Help us provide students with access to the up-to-date computers and software they need to support their academic success. • Software upgrades: $180 annually per machine • Computers for Extended Hours areas: $1,200 each • Endowment to sustain current technology: $25,000 > D e v e l o p m e n t C o l u m n M e g a n M o re n o, ' 0 6 B e t r u e t o y o u r s c h o o l M a k e a d i f fe re n c e i n t h e l i v e s o f C M U s t u d e n t s 6