Your generous support helps fund programmatic needs, collections, and equipment at HSLIC.
Access to information is critical in the healthcare field. The Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center fulfills this role for New Mexico healthcare professionals, as well as the many faculty and students, who are pursuing their academic and scholarly aspirations. The Executive Director’s Fund for Excellence supports timely funding needs in collections, equipment, and programs. Your generous gift is an investment in this future.Your generous gift is an investment in this future.
We are grateful for any contributions to our efforts. To donate, please use our secure online donation form.
Elizabeth Doolittle Kahane
Director of Development
UNM School of Medicine
Email: Liz.Kahane@unmfund.org
Phone: 505-313-7672
Melissa L. Rethlefsen, MSLS, AHIP
Executive Director & Professor
Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center
Email: MRethlefsen@salud.unm.edu
For over 40 years, a canopy of flowering mimosa trees has lined the entrance to the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center, providing shade over the benches and bike racks in front of the building. They also provided a green landscape out the upper floor windows for library users peering over their laptops and books.
Over the past several years, many of these trees have died due to age, disease, irrigation issues, and ongoing drought, leaving the front of the building vacant and unlandscaped.
The HSLIC Healing Garden Fund was established in 2021 to design and install new landscaping in front of the library building. Contributions to this fund will go to new plants, trees, irrigation, and hardscape to enhance the entrance with plantings related to the health sciences and new trees to shade the seating areas in front of the building.
If you are interested in contributing to this fund, please use this secure online donation form for the HSLIC Healing Garden Fund.
This Fund supports timely funding needs in collections, equipment, and programs that advance the mission of HSLIC to advance health and health equity as New Mexico’s only publicly accessible health sciences library.
An endowment is a type of gift that supports students, faculty, and programs over an extended period. The UNM Foundation invests the principal of the gift on behalf of HSLIC and uses a portion of the return each year to support the area designated for your gift.
By establishing a HSLIC endowment in your name or the name of a loved one, you will be supporting health care providers and students who depend on HSLIC's services. Annual payouts from your endowment will fund much needed initiatives that we would not be able to afford otherwise.
If you are interested in starting an endowment, please contact the HSLIC Executive Director at MRethlefsen@salud.unm.edu or Director of Development Liz Kahane at liz.kahane@unmfund.org.
HSLIC has several established endowments to which you can contribute, increasing the funding HSLIC may use to purchase additional collection resources.
Read about HSLIC's current endowments.
We accept:
Due to the labor-intensive nature of gift processing and university imposed funding constraints, we may not accept every book. We do not accept print journals, either bound or unbound.
If your materials do not fit the donation criteria above or HSLIC has declined your gift, there are other donation programs you may want to investigate. Consider donating to the City of Albuquerque or through an international donation program.
We recognize the importance of donations to fill gaps in the collections. Gifts that are timely in content and/or relevant to the HSLIC mission can provide depth to the collections, and may replace missing or damaged volumes.