Provides support for the inventory, assessment, preservation, and any activities related to making the collection available to students, researchers, policy makers and others.
Gifts invested to benefit the enhancement of the Nordic (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and Nordic-related collections of UW Libraries.
Carl Jarvie (1925-2007) was an alumnus (’49) of the University of Washington School of Business Administration. He was of Finnish ancestry and took an active interest in Seattle’s Nordic heritage for many years. He was also an active volunteer at the University and a charter member of the Friends of the UW Libraries.
Gifts invested for support to be used at the discretion of the Dean of the University Libraries to benefit the Department of Scandinavian Studies through enhancement of the Baltic Studies Collections at UW Libraries.
Support the Libraries Baltic Studies Collection Endowed Fund
Gifts invested for support to UW Libraries’ collections and programs of Arabic cultures of the Near East.
Fawzi Khoury was a Seattle resident for 45 years. In 1968, he was appointed as the first Head of the Near East Section of the UW Libraries. For over 30 years, Fawzi had a distinguished career which allowed him to pursue acquisitions throughout the Middle East and establish a nationally recognized Near East collection. Fawzi was a national leader in the Middle East Librarians Association; mentored young librarians, published the Middle East in Microform and was at the forefront of new initiatives in the library science field. He also served on the Interim Coordinating Committee on Human Rights, under the Secretary General’s Office of the United Nations.
Gifts invested for support that benefits the Slavic Studies Collections in supplementing the Libraries’ books, periodicals, and sets of collected works.
Gifts invested for support in the acquisition of materials in all formats on the indigenous languages of all North, Central and South America, as well as those of Siberia and North East Asia and the Ainu of Japan but excluding the Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages.
Gifts invested for support that benefits the Baltic Studies Collection at UW Libraries.
Support the Coulter Endowed Libraries Baltic Studies Collection Fund
For the acquisition of a collection of Swedish children’s books.
Give to the Lea Foundation Swedish Children’s Literature Fund
To purchase and preserve library materials in all formats relating to Slavic Studies.
Gifts invested for support to be used at the discretion of the Dean of the University Libraries to purchase books and materials published in Spain, in any language.
Edward Baker and Bridget A. Aldaraca created this endowment in memory of their friend and colleague, Michael P. Predmore, Stanford professor emeritus of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and former chairman of his department. 
Before joining Stanford in 1986, Predmore served on the faculty at the University of Washington for 21 years. As a scholar of Spanish lyric poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries, Predmore is best known for his expertise on the work of Nobel laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez and poet Antonio Machado. His dedication to the study of Spanish and Latin American authors granted him numerous honors, including the Medal of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, one of the Spanish government’s highest awards for civilians.
To his colleagues, friends and family members, Predmore was an honest, ethical man, a model of collaboration and consciousness who put others before himself.
To enhance the collections, programs and preservation efforts for materials obtained from and related to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, etc.
Gifts invested for long-term support to supplement books, periodicals, sets of collected works, facsimiles of manuscripts, electronic products and all other information formats, as well as services, preservation, or processing of materials relating to South Asia and its Diaspora (India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan).
To support the enhancement and preservation of the Libraries’ Southeast Asia book collection.
Gifts invested for support that augments collections in all formats, aids preservation treatments, and provide funds for programs, activities and travel to enhance the Southeast Asia program of the UW Libraries.
Julie Forbush had a long fascination with the Buddhist literature and architecture of Thailand. After the death of her husband, she spent five years in Chiang Mai and worked as an editor for the Social Research Institute at Chiang Mai University.
Her work culminated with her editing a “Catalogue of Palm-Leaf Texts on Microfilm,” published in 1986. This project also led her to travel throughout northern Thailand on her own, recording the varieties of Buddhist temple architecture found throughout the region. In 1988 she decided to return to the States and settled in Seattle where she could have access to the Southeast Asian collection at the University Libraries.
Her offer to be the founding editor of SEASPAN, the newsletter of the Northwest Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies was readily accepted by Charles Keyes, professor of anthropology and international studies and then director of the Consortium.
In the last ten years of her life she worked on a manuscript describing the origins of northern Thai Buddhist architecture which, to date, has not been published.
Through her estate, Ms. Forbush made a gift of $20,812 toward establishing The Forbush Southeast Asia Endowed Library Fund.
Gifts invested for long-term support of UW Libraries’ programs, resources and activities as they relate to the study of Japan, Korea, Thailand, China and Nepal.
Support for programs and activities may include, but are not limited to, acquisition of vernacular materials; foreign acquisitions travel and on-site purchases; continuing education and travel abroad for international conferences (all travel abroad financed by this endowment shall be limited to every other year); preservation programs; costs associated with access to electronic databases originating offshore; cataloging and other processing costs for newly acquired materials; retrospective cataloging of vernacular materials; and other activities designed to further education pertaining to the above mentioned countries through the provision of and access to information resources made available by the University Libraries.
This endowment was funded with a bequest from Virginia Stave.