Furthermore, according to May 31 figures provided by the Divinity development office, only $550,000, or 2 percent of the money raised so far, is allocated for capital projects.

L. Charles Willard, librarian, faculty member and secretary of the faculty at the Divinity School, says that "if funds were in hand" there would be an addition of two floors to the newer building as well as a renovation of the interior of the entire library, including the addition of environmental controls, a change which library preservationists say is crucial to the protection of the books.

"You can spend $1,000 conserving a map, but if you put that map in a building where the environment reaches 90 degrees, it won't do a whole lot of good," says Janice Merrill-Oldham, Malloy-Rabinowitz preservation librarian.

Technological improvements are also needed. The library currently possesses 20 "dumb" Hollis terminals, which do not have network capability and will become unusable when the library system moves to Hollis II between November 1997 and January 1999, according to Willard.

While the library physically houses three Macintoshes and three PCs, they are not administratively part of the library, which currently only has one-and-a-half publicly accessible PCs.

"It is my belief and intention that the library continues to support the informational needs of faculty and students here," Willard says. "The nature of those needs will change dramatically in the near future and it will cost money to make that intention happen."

Not all schools have fared badly in their library fundraising.

For example, the Design School, which has a campaign that is 93 percent complete, has raised more than enough money for the library.

GSD Librarian Hinda Sklar says more money is needed to endow books so more unrestricted funds can be devoted to areas like technology that are harder to raise money for. On the whole, she says the library is in good condition.

"This is probably the best design library in the country," Sklar says.

Differing Difficulties

One of the most interesting aspects of the difficulties of small school fundraising is that the schools' financial holes often come in different places.

In contrast, with its library difficulties, the Divinity School has done very well at raising money for financial aid, as it has currently raised 62 percent of its $32,950,000 goal for endowment, and a significant portion of that money is earmarked for aiding students.

"We tend to draw from Asia and Africa, areas which do not have a lot of wealth, allowing us to maintain our diversity," Gardner says.

The average grant in the office is half of the $14,700 tuition, and many receive greater funding, with students from poorer regions often receiving full tuition in addition to a $5,900 stipend for housing and other essentials in Cambridge. Ninety percent of Divinity School students receive some form of aid, Gardner says.