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How to Fund the New Library? Finding money to create a Library building during the Depression took ingenuity. The college had three plans to collect the $5,000 needed to supplement the $6,500 library fund money:  Get alumni class organizers to ask for donatons.  “Sell” windows and parts of the library as memorials, e.g., a large window would cost $50; the freplace, $100; and smaller windows cost $10 and $25. This fundraiser hoped to raise $3,000.  Alumni who could not aford a memorial were encouraged to save a dime a day and donate those funds. Source: informaton and graphic: Albright Alumni Record, June 1, 1934.