Marian Library

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 works about 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 collection of art and materials that reflect devotion to Mary, Theotokos, in Ukrainian tradition.
• U.S. Catholic Special Collection Endowment: Gifts support the collection, preservation and access to rare and/or significant research materials on Catholicism in the United States.