Shelby Hatfield Couch receives library scholarship

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NEW PALESTINE — Shelby Hatfield Couch has been selected to receive an Indiana Library Federation Sue Weller Marsh Memorial Scholarship for 2018. The Sue Marsh Weller Memorial Scholarship Fund provides funding for at least one scholarship for applicants entering or currently enrolled in an American Library Association-accredited program of graduate study specializing in children’s librarianship with plans to work with children or youth.

Couch is currently employed as a part-time youth services assistant at the Sugar Creek Branch of the Hancock County Public Library working primarily with teens in program planning and maintaining the teen collection. She is pursuing her Master of Library Science with a specialty in Youth Services from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and will graduate in May of 2019.

Couch has lived in New Palestine since she was young and was a patron long before she was an employee. She grew up walking to the library as a young child and then became a volunteer as a teenager. She worked at the library previously as a high school student and then came back to work in the circulation department during college. From there, she moved in to her current position. Couch aspires to become a teen librarian. She was recently married to her husband Kyle in July; and in her spare time, she and her husband are busy putting together their first home.