By City News Service
May 5, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - UCLA Library has received a $2 million gift from the estate of Irla “Lee'' Zimmerman Oetzel, who earned three degrees from the university, including a doctorate in psychology in 1953, and was instrumental in the creation of a widely used language skills assessment tool for children.
UCLA officials said the unrestricted gift will help the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library build, maintain, preserve and promote its collection of nearly 700,000 print volumes and thousands of electronic resources, including journals, databases and other materials.
“Lee's bequest reflects her professional background and appreciation for her time spent conducting extensive research in the biomedical library, both as a student and in recent years with intermittent reference requests,'' said Virginia Steel, UCLA's Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian.