Title: ELCA University Library Receives $350,000 ELCA NEWS SERVICE January 23, 1997 BLOUGH-WEIS LIBRARY RECEIVES $350,000 Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., has received a $350,000 grant to help transform the Blough-Weis Library into a more powerful center of information access, technology support and teaching resources. ?The resources provided by this challenge grant will go a long way toward helping the university overcome the limitations of its small-town location,? said Kathleen Gunning, director of the Blough-Weis Library. ?It will help us offer a rich, technologically up-to-date undergraduate experience that significantly expands the cultural and academic reach of our students and trains them to become competent world citizens,? said Gunning. The income will support expanded library collections of CD-ROM and on-line data, periodicals, films and books; multimedia equipment; and faculty development in the use of instructional technology. The grant was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). To secure the NEH grant, Susquehanna must raise a total of $1.4 million in matching gifts over the next three years. The resulting total of $1,750,000 will be added to the University?s endowment funds to support a more international and culturally inclusive humanities education. Susquehanna was ranked as the best regional liberal arts college in the North by the magazine U.S. News & World Report, Sept. 16, 1996, issue ranking America?s best colleges. Susquehanna University is one of 28 colleges and universities associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.