University Park, PA -- Christine Faust recently joined the Penn State University Libraries' Development Office, 510 Paterno Library, as assistant director of development. She is responsible for donor cultivation and stewardship.

Faust brings six years of experience as the director of development for The Second Mile—which provides a network of prevention, early intervention, and community-based child development programs and services free-of-charge to school-aged children.

Prior to working for The Second Mile, she served as conference planner in Penn State's Conferences and Institutes, a unit of the Division of Continuing Education. For ten years, she worked in various capacities at the Penn State Public Broadcasting station WPSX-TV, including assistant director of the award-winning instructional series "What's in the News" and as on-air fundraising producer.

Faust graduated from Penn State with a B.A. in journalism. For more on the Development Office, call 814-865-2258 or visit www.libraries.psu.edu/development/.