{"id":208,"date":"2014-11-25T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries-dev.mit.edu\/giving\/?page_id=208"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:43:36","slug":"directors-fund","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/giving\/opportunities\/directors-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Director&#8217;s Fund for Library Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_827\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-827\" class=\"wp-image-827\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/C.Bourg_-scaled-e1779810159717-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/C.Bourg_-scaled-e1779810159717-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/C.Bourg_-scaled-e1779810159717-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/C.Bourg_-scaled-e1779810159717-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/C.Bourg_-scaled-e1779810159717-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/C.Bourg_-scaled-e1779810159717-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/C.Bourg_-scaled-e1779810159717-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/C.Bourg_-scaled-e1779810159717-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/C.Bourg_-scaled-e1779810159717-624x624.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gifts to the Director\u2019s Fund for Library Excellence help support the most pressing needs and strategic priorities of the Libraries. Whether supporting new initiatives in open scholarship, acquiring critical digital and print resources, or exhibiting our Distinctive Collections in the <a href=\"\/maihaugen\">Maihaugen Gallery<\/a>, the Libraries couldn\u2019t do it without the unrestricted financial support of our friends and supporters.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you will consider <a href=\"https:\/\/giving.mit.edu\/give\/to?fundId=2787900&amp;source=WBMPP\">making an unrestricted gift today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gifts to the Director\u2019s Fund for Library Excellence help support the most pressing needs and strategic priorities of the Libraries. Whether supporting new initiatives in open scholarship, acquiring critical digital and print resources, or exhibiting our Distinctive Collections in the Maihaugen Gallery, the Libraries couldn\u2019t do it without the unrestricted financial support of our friends and supporters. We hope you will consider making an unrestricted gift today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":200,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-208","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions\/829"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}