Thanks to an incredibly generous community donation, Carpinteria Community Library soon will have a bilingual Literacy Coordinator who oversees a team of tutors and students working together to develop new readers and leaders in Carpinteria!
The $50,000 donation was anonymously gifted to the Friends of the Carpinteria Library to be used for literacy. Gifted in honor of John R. and Thelma L. Schmidhauser, the donation celebrates the Schmidhausers’ love for reading, learning and the city of Carpinteria.
Plans are to hire a part-time time literacy coordinator for three years, by which time the Library hopes to have the position funded by the California State Library Literacy Services.
“The donors are thrilled with the proposed use of the gift,” said Friends of the Carpinteria Library chair Gaby Edwards. “They believe it is just what John and Thelma would have wanted for Carpinteria.”
The new coordinator will receive training through California Library Literacy Services (CLLS), train 10 additional volunteer tutors; host quarterly training sessions for prospective tutors, conduct intake interviews for 15 learners, and establish a baseline resource library.
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