October 7, 2009

Dear Rural Library Project:

This memo is to express our gratitude for the commercial library shelving that was stored and donated for Lighthouse Library, a community library for the small Kansas town of Dexter Kansas – sponsored by ECCRC, a 501-C non-profit community resource center it its seventh year of operation in Cowley County, Kansas.

On September 19, 2009, we met your representative, Mr. Daniel White in Memphis, Tennessee where he had driven the shelving in a U-Haul. We appreciate the costs involved for both the U-Haul rental and Mr. White’s trip back to Atlanta, Georgia. We then rented the U-Haul for the trip to Dexter, Kansas. The shelving is now at the Lighthouse Library site and will be installed as soon as the front library is completed.

Mr. White has been a constant encourager as we worked on this long and difficult project. We have been in association for the past three years via e-mail. As your team is probably aware, there is often little encouragement for rural library projects and even less funding available. The donation of the shelving which is valued at $10,000 is greatly appreciated. The other involved costs which include the storage fees on the shelving and the hauling fees to get it half-way to Kansas are equally appreciated. We appreciate others who are involved in this donation including the original donor of the shelving – the Woodruff Library at Emory University.

We will keep you updated on our project which has a proposed opening date of the weekend after Thanksgiving of this year. We need to raise the funds to complete the project which we estimate at $5,500. These funds include the cost to put in the ceiling of the library and the insulation. Your interest is a constant encourager. On behalf of ECCRC and the town of Dexter, Kansas – thank you for providing the shelving for Lighthouse Library.

Sincerely,

Lynn Pettigrew Norris ECCRC Director