Improving our Universities, Part II

I recently posted on Craig Biddle's campaign to get The Objective Standard into university libraries.

In a followup email, Biddle brings up two further items regarding that effort.

• A sample library recommendation letter, which one can use as is or borrow from as necessary.
• A way to donate subscriptions to libraries low on funds or unwilling to subscribe to new journals.

  A number of subscribers have already given gift subscriptions to libraries (a cherished subscriber in California has given five). You can do so too, either via our gift subscriptions page, or via our mail-order form (click here for the PDF), or by calling us toll free at 800-423-6151. Upon receiving your order, we will send the librarian a postal letter notifying him of the gift and the giver (unless you wish to remain anonymous) along with the first issue(s) of the journal. While supplies last, we can even begin gift subscriptions with the inaugural issue -- so act now! [edited some markups]
  

On the matter of gift subscriptions, Biddle notes that, "Once a library has received a few issues of TOS, chances are good that it will renew the subscription on its own when the time comes." So if you've ever wished Objectivism were entrenched in some way at our universities, here's your chance!

On a more serious note, this strikes me as an excellent way to donate to a university without the money being squandered on something inconsequential or worse, being used to promote ideas to which you are opposed. In fact, this might be one of the few ways to make a relatively small donation that will have a lasting, positive effect on your alma mater.

-- CAV