AUBURN – Friends of the Auburn Public Library have recently donated books to be used in a high school in China.

Mi Li, a visiting AFS teacher from Changchun, China, has spent six months in residence at Webster School and Lake Street School, where she has taught students about the Chinese culture.

Mi Li has also shared her skills with special programs at Fairview School and at the Auburn Public Library.

When she returns to Changchun, she will continue her teaching duties as a senior English teacher at the Changchun High School, but she will now be able to offer, for the first time, fiction and nonfiction works in English to the school’s 4,000 students.

Sylvie Martin, who has become a familiar face to Auburn Library’s patrons, started her library career as a teenager and has been at APL for 14 years.

One of her shared responsibilities is to accept donations of books to the library and to help find new homes for them either through the Friends’ annual book sale, the used book cart in the Circulation Area, or through gifts to other nonprofit organizations.