Education
University of California, Los Los Angeles
philanthropist president bookseller
University of California, Los Los Angeles
He is President of Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Incorporated., located in Santa Monica, California, established in 1976, an antiquarian bookselling firm specializing in early printed books Karmiole provides financial support to various libraries and educational programs in Southern California. He has established endowment funds at University of California, Los Angeles and at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
The UCSB endowment is for the purchase of rare books
The endowments at University of California, Los Angeles include an annual lecture series on the History of the Book Trade at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. An endowment for the purchase of rare books & manuscripts at the discretion of the University of California, Los Angeles University Librarian.
And endowments for financial aid to students in the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. An endowment for Archival Studies programs and speakers at the University of California, Los Angeles Global Social Entrepreneurship & Instruction Section was established in 2013.
Professor Heather MacNeil of the University of Toronto was the first lecturer.
Another endowment, begun in 2015, is the Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Research Fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles Library. Karmiole currently serves on the advisory committees of the California Rare Book School, the University of California, Los Angeles Research Library Board of Visitors, and the Library Council at UCSB. Since the 1970s Karmiole has served three terms on the National Board of the Antiquarian Booksellers" Association of America. He was the president of the Southern California Chapter of the ABAA in 2012 and 2013.
His article about collecting books in the digital age appeared in The Journal of the Book Club of Washington.
He is a member of the Director’s Advisory Council of the William Andrews Clark Library and of the Board of Visitors of the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.