The Marian Library Newsletter June 1959

These are the plans for our lady.路 _ _ _ the finest center of Marian research, study and information that devotion will build.

This tentative sketch of the projected Marian Library unit, which will contain urgently needed book stacks, reading rooms for research, lecture hails, an art gallery, publication facilities for various Maria t periodicals of the Library, microfilm and rare book facilities, places our n 'eds within the conservative figure of $250,000. Construction will begin on thi: national center to our Lady as soon as possible after the necessary funds have been assured.

UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON

MARIAN LIBRARY

Volume XIV

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DAYTON 9, OHIO

The New Marian Library lssu(

June 1959

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sacrifice for his national center of solid Marian theological stt iies is a concrete and lasting means of giving tang ible evidence and support to a work exclusively MLrian - your personal memorial gift to the Mother of God. The Marian Library may further its existence of spreading throughout the world knowledge of Mar) , if you, a friend of the library, can help us gener msly in one of the following ways:

Living Memorial

The Marian Library also offers urgently neededBenefactor's Gifts ($500- $200) and Builder's Gifts ($90) so as to permit everyone to participate in this most worthwhile of causes.

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Bene f actor

Benefactors will have their names inscribed on an attractive Benefactors' Tablet which will be prominently and permanently placed in -the lobby of the new Marian Library. The cost of a $200 benefactor's gift is $7.50 monthly, for 24 months after the initial payment. You can be a benefactor for less than 19 cents a day.

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WHO

may participate in the building of the Marian Library?

Individuals, to honor someone living or deceased Parish societies - Sodalities - Altar and Rosary Groups Families as a lasting benefaction Religious communities and houses Libraries which depend on the Marian Library as a source of difficult and hard-to-find materials Students and teachers of Mariology ANYONE DEVOTED TO OUR LADY AND CONVINCED OF THE NECESSITY FOR A NATIONAL SOURCE OF MARIAN MATERIALS FROM ALL PERIODS AND PLACES $150,000 Nerv Marian Library (For Dedication) Main Lobhy 50,000 25,000 Exterior Statue of Our Lady 15,000 Main Entrance Elevator 15,000 10,000 Exterior Cross 10,000 Mural of Our Lady in Main Lobby 5,000 ... Each Main Entrance Doors (21 5,000 Corridor 5,000 Crucifix in Main Lobby 5,000 Statue of Our Lady in Main Lobby ..

5,000 Statue of St. Joseph in Main Lobby Holy Water Fonts in Main Lobby (2) ... Each 1,000 10,000

Furnishings Statue of Our Lady Statue of St. Joseph Crucifix Sacred Portraits ( 6) Clock

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Statue of Our Lady Statue of St. Joseph

10,000 5,000 1,000 1,000

Our Lady of Lourdes Lecture Room Furnishirlgs Statue of Our Lady Statue of St. Joseph

10,000 5,000 1,000 1.000

.St. Jerome's Book Room Furnishings Statue of Our Lady Crucifix Sacred portraits ( 6) Marian Book Stacks (150)

... Each .. Each

10,000 5,000 1,000 600 500 500

Each

5,000 2,000 1,000 1,000 500

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Reading Room

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Each

1,000 1,000 600 500 500

Microfilm Room Furnishings .........

Statue of Our Lady Statue of St. Joseph ..

Sacred Portraits (2) ..

Please malce checks payable to THE MARIANIST DEVELOPMENT FUND; Marian Library; University of Dayton; Dayton 9, Ohio.

The Marian Library is the final objective in a campaign which has already succeeded in securing an essential expansion for. other educational works of the Society of Mary (Marianists).