FRIENDS OF
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Friends of the Library

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PURPOSE

The purpose of the Friends of the Harold G. Andersen Library of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is to assist and support the library in its goals of curricular, instructional, research, and public services, which aid in the mission of the university and benefit the community as a whole.

The Friends will

  • Promote awareness of the needs and potential of the library within the student body, faculty and administration, alumni, and community
  • Encourage fund-raising and gifts to aid the library
  • Advance library exposure through special events and activities
  • Act as an advocate for the library

LIBRARY NEEDS

With the information explosion, library costs keep going up, always beyond the budgetary limitations. Therefore the library regularly has unmet needs which Friends may wish to fund. Examples of what your gift may help support:
$50 a book
$200 an annual subscription to a journal
$500 preservation of local history collections
$1,000 exhibit or community outreach program
$2,000 an electronic resource subscription

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS include:

  • Harold G. Andersen Library card entitling you to borrowing privileges and services
  • Training sessions on computerized library searching
  • Workshops on genealogy
  • News about library collections and technological development
  • Invitations to special programs and events
  • Pre-sale privileges for the annual library book sale
  • The satisfaction of knowing you are contributing significantly to the library

Membership Categories:

Life $750
Corporate $200 and up
Benefactor $100 and up
Household (2 persons) $35
Individual $25
Student $5

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Volunteers are welcomed to help in book sale activities. Donations for the book sale are accepted throughout the year. Items can be dropped off at the Circulation Desk, or arranged for pick up with Doreen Acker-Ritter(ackerd@uww.edu, phone: 262-472-5575). Please read Library gift policy. Sorters are needed to help sort book sale material into broad subject categories throughout the year. During the sale, held annually during the National Library Week in April, volunteers are needed to help set up and staff the sale. Those interested in helping, please contact Patricia Fragola (fragolap@uww.edu, phone: 262-472-5673).

LIBRARY HISTORY

Dr. Williams helping in moving the collection from Hyer Hall to Andersen The second oldest academic building on campus, Andersen Library was named in honor of Harold G. Andersen. Harold Gilbert Andersen (1896-1979) was president of the First Citizens State Bank in Whitewater and represented Whitewater State Teachers College on the Board of Regents from 1947 to 1960. He was a 1917 graduate of Whitewater Normal School. Up to the time the new Library on campus was built and named for Mr. Andersen all of the state college libraries had been housed in the various "old main" buildings on the various campuses. Mr. Andersen was instrumental in convincing the Board of Regents that a new building was needed at Whitewater. Whitewater became the first college in the System to have a separate library building.

Ground breaking for the new $725,000.00 building was at 2:00p.m. April 9, 1951. Moving day into the new building was Wednesday, February 25, 1953 when students and faculty carried the 41,000 books in relay fashion from the 3rd floor of the west wing of Old Main with President Williams carrying the first load of books.

The library was enlarged by two major additions in 1965 and 1970.

For another picture of the move, click here.

Additional Information about the Library: http://library.uww.edu