AUBURN â As a library patron, Dorotha B. âDorothyâ Schrader relied on Eckhart Public Libraryâs delivery services.
Now, her legacy gift to the library will help continue and improve those services, with the purchase of a new van that made its first deliveries Friday.
Deliveries have become even more important during the pandemic, and they are available weekly to any library patron.
Schrader, who died Nov. 28, 2016, at the age of 89, left the library as the main beneficiary of her will.
The library used part of her gift to complete its renovation and restoration following a 2017 arson fire. The balance of her bequest will grow in an endowment for books, maintenance and emergencies.