Library Wish List
Selected Wish List Items
There are many opportunities to help the OSU Library. This is a short list of specific projects you can support.
Please contact us, if you are interested in contributing in full or partially to any of these items.
Services
- $4400 for 24-hour building access during finals week and the weekend preceding. Individual evenings range in cost from $600 to $700. Contact us for details about sponsoring a specific night.
Equipment
- $3500 for a Fujitsu fi-4340C Color Duplex Scanner for use by the Library's Electronic Publishing Center to facilitate digitization of historical documents.
Materials
- Up to $5,000 for a fund that will allow us to respond to opportunities to purchase historic Oklahoma maps.
- $1400 (approximately $38 per title) to continue building the Library’s collection of the American Film Institute’s top movies of all time.
- The following requests from the Music Department have phonetic transcriptions of the text and are a great value to the students in the department.
- $65.00 for The Complete Puccini Libretti Volume I by Nico Castel Edited by Marcie Stapp
- $60.00 for The Complete Puccini Libretti Volume II by Nico Castel Edited by Marcie Stapp
- $60.00 for The Complete Verdi Libretti Volume I by Nico Castel
- $65.00 for The Complete Verdi Libretti Volume II by Nico Castel
- $60.00 for The Complete Verdi Libretti Volume III by Nico Castel
- $60.00 for The Complete Verdi Libretti Volume IV by Nico Castel
- $75.00 for French Opera Libretti Volume I by Nico Castel
- $75.00 for French Opera Libretti Volume II by Nico Castel Edited by Marcie Stapp
- $65.00 for Italian Belcanto Opera Libretti Volume I by Nico Castel Edited by Scott Jackson Wiley
- $75.00 for Italian Belcanto Opera Libretti Volume II by Nico Castel Edited by Marcie Stapp
- $75.00 for Italian/French Belcanto Opera Libretti Volume III by Nico Castel
- $75.00 for Verismo Opera Libretti Volume I by Nico Castel Edited by Scott Jackson Wiley
- $65.00 for Four Strauss Opera Libretti by Nico Castel Edited by Marcie Stapp
- $75.00 for German Miscellaneous Opera Libretti by Nico Castel Edited by Marcie Stapp
- $70.00 for Libretti of Russian Operas Volume I by Anton Belov
- $70.00 for Variants in Wagner's Vocal Lines (The "Ring" Operas) By Susan S. Webb
- $65.00 for Handle Opera Libretti Volume I by Nico Castel Edited by Hemdi Kfir
- $70.00 for Der Ring Des Nibelungen (Wagner) by Nico Castel Edited by Marcie Stapp
- The Music Department also has the following requests for American composer, Gian Carlo Menotti
- $59.95 for Amahl and the Night Visitors
- $40.00 for The Consul
- $24.95 for G. Schirmer American Aria Anthology
Fulfilled Wishes
Special thanks to the following Friends for purchasing items from the wish list.
- Anonymous
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Joe Garner
- Kevin & Priscilla Gerfen
- Adeanya Hunt
- Claud Kniffin
Contact
For more information on giving to the Library contact the Brandy Cox, Senior Director of Development, at bcox@OSUgiving.com or 405-385-0715.


