The purpose of this endowment shall be to support and enhance the University Libraries by providing monies for the purchase of books and other libraries materials or information-based products and services related to the disciplinary areas of geography and meteorology. These should reflect current trends in the discipline, placing special emphasis on a wide variety of books, ongoing subscriptions, microfilm and computer-based formats. This endowment should also support the collections activities of the subject bibliographer(s) in the discipline.