Giving to IU SLIS

Thank you SLIS donors! SLIS is grateful for all varieties of gifts received.

We welcome all sizes and types of donations. You can give to our SLIS general fund, to scholarships, or to a new project (ie. books, computers, labs, endowed professorships...).

If you have any questions about giving, please feel free to contact us:

The IU Foundation provides general information for giving to Indiana University. Their Annual Fund and Endowment Campaign are two examples of giving opportunities that have benefited SLIS.

Indiana State Income Tax Credit: Gifts to SLIS via the Indiana University Foundation are tax deductible for residents of the state of Indiana.

The IU Alumni Association has links to update your address and class note information — and how to become a member to the IUAA. SLIS receives a portion of your IUAA membership dues. The SLIS Alumni Board oversees the revenue from the dues, and has been able to help sponsor SLIS graduation receptions, alumni events, and our SLIS Alumni Magazine.

Information about a sample of our endowed student fellowships:

• Charles A. and Charles H. Davis Fellowship in Scientific Information
• Margaret I. Rufsvold Fellowship
• Clayton A. Shepherd Scholarship
• Yuan T'ung Li Memorial Fellowship

Charles A. and Charles H. Davis Fellowship in Scientific Information

Charles A. Davis was a pioneer in forensic science. He headed the Indiana State Police Headquarters Laboratory and later that agency's Criminal Investigation Division. A zoology major at IU in during the 1930s, he worked throughout his career with friends and colleagues on the IU faculty in anthropology, chemistry, toxicology, medicine, dentistry, and law. He also chaired the original Indiana State Commission on Forensic Sciences.

Charles H. Davis, his son, has three degrees from IU and studied postgraduate chemistry at the University of Munich on a fellowship awarded by the German government. He has a graduate minor in toxicology and has spent most of his career in information science, working as an editor for Chemical Abstracts before entering academic life. He has taught at Drexel University and the University of Michigan and served for several years as a dean, first at the University of Alberta, Canada, and then at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he now holds the rank of professor emeritus. He is a senior fellow in IU School of Library and Information Science.

This fellowship was established to assist promising graduate students in the study of scientific information.

Margaret I. Rufsvold Fellowship

In 1938, Margaret Rufsvold joined Indiana University as an instructor, proceeding through the ranks to eventually become the first dean of the (then named) Graduate Library School. During that time she received many awards and honors, such as an honorary Doctor of Human Letters and the Beta Phi Mu Award for Distinguished Service to Library Education (the highest honor bestowed by the American Library Association). Ms. Rufsvold is also known internationally for her work as a consultant to the Ministry of Education in Thailand in the 1950s. During her service at IU, the library program evolved from a collection of classes in the Education Department to an independent program and school. Additionally, she authored nine books, coauthored four, and published forty-five of her articles in scholarly journals.

Margaret I. Rufsvold retired in 1972 from her position as dean at IU. Upon her retirement, Ms. Rufsvold established a fellowship in her name, honoring a SLIS student who shows great promise in the field of library and information science. The award is bestowed annually. She passed away on April 22, 2001 at the age of ninety-three in Bloomington, Indiana.

Clayton A. Shepherd Scholarship

After working in the public sector in automation, programming, and information retrieval, Clayton Shepherd joined the SLIS faculty in 1967. He was a leader in the advancement of technology and the introduction of automation and electronic information topics to the curriculum at SLIS. Because of his work in these areas, the Shepherd Computer Lab is named in his honor.

During his career, he served as the Manager of Information Retrieval (1962) in the Federal Government Marketing Division of the Sperry Rand Corporation. He also worked for the American Society for Metals as the Systems and Operations Manager. He was an active member of the American Society for Information Science, and was instrumental in developing the SLIS student chapter of ASIS.

When Professor Shepherd passed away in 1990, his wife, Odette Fautret Shepherd established the Clayton A. Shepherd Scholarship in his honor. The award provides financial aid to a promising student with an emphasis in technology or information science in the SLIS program.

Yuan T'ung Li Memorial Fellowship

Yuan T'ung-li held a number of roles throughout his life. Prior to moving to the United States, he worked in China at Tsinghua College as a librarian. He relocated to the U.S. to further his education. While in school he was employed by the Library of Congress as a cataloguer in Chinese collections.

Upon completion of his study abroad, he returned to China in 1924. In the following years he held positions as Librarian at Guandong University, as well as Librarian and Professor of Bibliography at Beijing University in 1925. Later, T'ung-li became Director of the National Library of Beijing, which is one of the largest of its kind in China and the world.

His career took a political turn when he established an office representing the National Library of Beijing in 1942 in China's wartime capital Chongqing. During his stay he acted as a representative of China's government as a cultural communicator with Great Britain and the U.S., and later was an adviser to the Chinese delegation to the U.N. Conference on International Organization.

T'ung-li once again came back to China to continue his position in the National Library around 1945. Four years later, due to the communist force, he again moved to the U.S. to continue employment at the Library of Congress, this time as a consultant in Chinese literature. From 1951-1953 he was the chief bibliographer at the Stanford Research Institute in California. In 1957 T'ung-li returned to the Library of Congress and remained there in until his retirement in 1965.

T'ung-li Yuan passed away one month after retiring. Carried on by his two sons and one daughter, T'ung-li's memory and achievements still survive. A memorial scholarship was established by his family. The intent of this scholarship is to provide financial aid to a Chinese or Chinese-heritage student with serious interests in library and information science.

Sources

• Kaser, David, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University School of Library and Information Science (paper, c.1983).
• Kinsman, C.D., ed. Contemporary Authors - permanent series (1st ed., vols.1-2). Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1975.
• Wedgeworth, R., ed. World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services (2nd ed.). Chicago: American Library Association, 1986.