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Wish you success in your undertaking!

Am I right that you have no problem finding donors, and just need a set of books to start off with?

Should those be IT-related books or some other (engineering/art/etc.)?

The target you specified (60 books a year) is rather high, only fiction books can be read at that rate (I also suppose the books would be not in your first language). If your friend is studying literature/communications that would be somehow connected to their study, otherwise it will definitely be a major distraction.