What kinds of activities can a library faculty research fund support?

Question

As part of helping to better market a research fund for library faculty, I'm looking for examples of the kinds of activities/costs that such funds at other research libraries support to help librarians do research/publish research. Do such funds mostly fund travel to research sites or conferences? To pay page charges for Open Access publishing? To purchase equipment or supplies for research.

Please share links to public documentation of the work of faculty research funds if available.

Answer 1

George Mason University Library's Fenwick Fellow program provides office space, dedicated collections money, and additional non-earmarked funds to a local faculty member.

Wisconsin's Grants-in-Aid program is run by the Friends of the Libraries, and supports a month or two of humanities research in the Madison area.