Job Title:
Director of Collection Services
Unit:
Franklin D. Schurz Library
Contact Info:
002A Schurz Library
574-520-5500
suethoma@iusb.edu
Community Engagement Involvement:
Outreach
Focus Area(s):
Education and Learning, Environment/Sustainability
Community Partners:
Motivations and Impact:
“The library supports an active gift acquisition program. This program provides community members with a place to donate books and DVDs that the library uses to enhance the collection, sell in the annual book sale, and send to Better World Books. Community members receive an acknowledgement letter for their material donation that they can use for tax purposes. The community enjoys the annual book sale. Better World Books sells what we send and gives the library 15% of the proceeds which we put toward collection development. Five percent of the sale goes to The National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) which works with literacy programs throughout the U.S.”