Make an Immediate Impact

Your gift to the Marian Library Fund supports projects in areas of greatest need — experiential learning, conservation, special programming and more. Gifts are generally used within three years.

Secure Long-Term Sustainability

Your gift to an endowment fund will keep Marian Library collections growing and thriving. 

• Marian Library Endowment: Gifts help the Marian Library build collections and serve the visitors who come to use the materials, view exhibits and learn more about the Blessed Virgin Mary.
• Marian Library Art and Exhibits (Mary Louise Tibbits Berg Endowment): Gifts support the art collection and art outreach program to acquire, maintain and exhibit these inspiring tributes to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
• Marian Library Rare Books (Brother Walter Roesch, S.M. Endowment): Gifts help the Marian Library to conserve, protect and grow the collection of over 6,200 volumes of rare and priceless books published between 1473 and 1800 in the Brother William Fackovec, S.M., Rare Book Collection.
• Marian Library Crèche Collection (Connie Breen Endowment): This fund, established with a charitable bequest from longtime volunteer Connie Breen, supports the Marian Library’s collection of over 3,600 Nativities from around the world and provides funding for the annual Christmas exhibit and related programs and events.
• Ukrainian Marian Collection (Helen Nykolyshyn Ukrainian Marian Endowment): This fund, named for former Marian Library employee Halyna (Helen) Nykolyshyn, originator of the Ukrainian Marian Collection, helps the Marian Library steward and grow this unique collection of art and materials that reflect devotion to Mary, Theotokos, in Ukrainian tradition.

Donations of Books and Media

The Marian Library welcomes donations of books, art, multimedia, archival materials and realia that further its mission as a national and international center for scholarship on the Blessed Virgin Mary, documenting diverse expressions of popular devotion to Mary. 

To inquire about donating materials, please send a list of items along with photographs to marianlibrary@udayton.edu. 

Because of the Marian Library’s limited storage and preservation resources, we are unfortunately not able to accept all in-kind offers of gifts. We make every effort to accept only items that are directly related to Mary or which can demonstrably provide theological, historical, cultural, literary, philosophical, psychological or sociological perspectives for understanding the person of Mary. We accept gifts with the intention of adding unique materials not already available to researchers, and with a commitment to the time, effort and funds required to preserve them and provide access through cataloging and archival processing. We regret that we cannot accept unsolicited donations without prior correspondence.