Your generous support helps fund programmatic needs, collections, and equipment at HSLIC.
HSLIC currently has five endowments. If you wish to learn more about any of the endowments or to donate to a specific one, please contact the HSLIC Executive Director at MRethlefsen@salud.unm.edu.
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 Collection Endowment enables the library to grow vital print and electronic holdings, while furthering our goal of generating and disseminating knowledge and advancing new ideas through scholarship. Your generous gift is an investment in this future.
In 2005, Larry and Nedra Gordon perpetuated their contributions to environmental health in New Mexico by setting up an endowment for HSLIC. The endowment enables HSLIC to purchase library resources and promote new initiatives in the area of environmental health.
Mr. Gordon’s career encompassed nearly every major aspect of environmental health and protection. He also advocated for public health programs and agencies in New Mexico from 1950 to 1988.
The Waldo H. Rogers Memorial Fund is HSLIC's longest-standing established fund to support collection development. The fund, set up in 1964 by Mrs. Waldo H. Rogers (Evelyn), supports the purchase of books and materials in the area of forensic medicine.
Waldo Rogers began his distinguished law career in 1931 as a junior partner in the law offices of former New Mexico Governor M.C. Mechem. Judge Rogers held several positions and appointments throughout his career, becoming a member of the New Mexico judiciary in 1951. He was appointed United States District Judge in May 1954 and held that position until his death in 1964.
The George L. and Mary W. Voelz Endowment was established in 2004 to support the ongoing subscription costs to the Classics in Medicine Library. To inaugurate this effort, Dr. and Mrs. Voelz gifted nearly 200 volumes from the Classics in Medicine Library.
George Voelz, M.D., was an adjunct faculty member of the UNM School of Medicine. A resident of Albuquerque from 1998 until his death in 2003, Dr. Voelz contributed to world knowledge on the health effects of plutonium through the Manhattan Project Plutonium Workers and National Plutonium Workers Studies. His distinguished research stems from when he was the Health Division Leader at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1970s and 1980s.
Dr. Voelz was a collector of the Classics in Medicine Library, which consists of leather-bound reprints of classical books from the history of medicine. This series of books retains the format and typeface of the original making, otherwise extremely rare materials available to today's readers. The Voelz Collection is housed in HSLIC Room 416.
The HSC Library Collection to Benefit the Elderly fund was established in 1998 with a donation from the Sun Healthcare Group. The purpose of the fund was to expand the library’s collections in geriatric medicine. Through donations by library employees, the fund became the Geriatric Collection Endowment in 2007. Today this endowment continues to help fund the library’s collection holdings in geriatrics.