This study is to find the way to solve the expecting financial problems of academic library which has to secure more students than other universities, to be specialized, and to have a growth in quality, due to the decline of birth rate and increase of the number of university students. And also I would like to pave the way for raising funds, which will be the pending issue shortly, through studies and data analysis of the condition and way to collect academic library development fund and university development fund in Korea and America. Especially this study introduce some cases to raising funds at University at Albany, University of Kentucky, University of Cornell and the evaluation for the raise funds at 23 universities in the state of California, USA.