Ken Karmiole Pledges Collection Endowment
Ken Karmiole, owner of Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller Inc., has pledged $100,000 to establish the Kenneth Karmiole Endowment for Rare Books and Manuscripts, which will support the acquisition of special collections materials throughout the Library. Karmiole is the first member of the Library's recently established Board of Visitors to make a major pledge to the Library.
The endowment will be used to acquire materials for the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections, Performing Arts Special Collections, and the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections. Holdings in these departments encompass artists' books, business archives, drawings and prints, literary manuscripts, maps, museum objects, personal papers, photographs, rare books, printed and manuscript music scores, and scripts.
Although his is the initial pledge to establish this endowment, Karmiole encourages others who support rare books and manuscripts to also give to the fund.
Karmiole earned a bachelor's of arts in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master's in library science with a specialization in rare books and manuscripts from UCLA.
