Library Volunteers Welcome

Author : Lura Sanborn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781476623825

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Library Volunteers Welcome! by Lura Sanborn Pdf

Volunteers are crucial to the daily operation of any library. Finding and retaining the right people, motivating them and matching their skills with projects is challenging. This collection of 30 new essays brings together the experiences of numerous individuals across the U.S., providing ideas, projects and best practices for volunteer recruiting and management. The contributors—among them library board members, heads of special collections, directors of state library associations, outreach coordinators, archivists and researchers—discuss a broad range of topics in five sections: recruitment and retention; policies and process; mentoring and empowering; placement, programs and responsibilities; and outreach.

Author : Allison Renner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781538116920

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Library Volunteers by Allison Renner Pdf

This book helps the library get the most from volunteers, whether creating a program from scratch, or just refreshing what has been created for the library. It looks beyond the scope of the library to include information on partnering with community organizations to provide volunteer opportunities to library volunteers on a broader scale.

Author : Carla Campbell Lehn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440856716

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From Library Volunteer to Library Advocate by Carla Campbell Lehn Pdf

This guide will show you how to reinvigorate your library's volunteer program using your community as a resource. Volunteers are essential to a library's well-being, but running a volunteer program is a complicated task that could often be done so as to bring more benefit to your library. This book draws on the author's decades of experience in public libraries and the nonprofit arena, and on cutting-edge professional trends in volunteer management, to show you how to tap into each of your volunteer's talents and match them to your library's needs. Providing multiple tactics for improving your library's volunteer program, the book covers redoubling your recruitment efforts to attract more volunteers, more logically assigning roles, and growing your relationships with volunteers. In addition, it addresses common problems with volunteers and potential barriers to success and explains how to overcome them. No matter what size your library, its volunteer staff, or its budget, this practical book will help you to streamline your volunteer program and more effectively engage the community to transform your library into a flourishing community center.

Author : Leslie Edmonds Holt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610690492

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Success with Library Volunteers by Leslie Edmonds Holt Pdf

Covering principles, practical guidelines, and best practices for establishing and operating a successful library volunteer program in any type of library, this is a must-have resource for the 21st-century librarian. In these tough economic times, librarians must maximize the potential of their volunteer programs. This innovative guide not only provides readers with the practical information they need to recruit, manage, and retain effective volunteers, but also demonstrates how to create a dynamic volunteer program—one that offers purposeful work and emphasizes rewards rather than rules and forms. Illustrated by best practices, this book also offers practical guidelines for evaluating the success of a volunteer program—in terms of the library's benefit, and in terms of the experience from the volunteer's point of view.

Author : Nora J. Bird,Michael A. Crumpton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440841774

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Short-Term Staff, Long-Term Benefits by Nora J. Bird,Michael A. Crumpton Pdf

This book offers a novel, more efficient, and mutually beneficial approach to attracting, training, and working with short-term staff in ways that benefit all involved: the organization, the short-term staff, and library personnel in general. After recent cutbacks in funding, many libraries now suffer permanent gaps in their staffing—gaps that have necessarily been filled by temporary staff and volunteers in order to complete essential work. Unfortunately, short-term staffing presents its own issues. But having temporary staff doesn't have to be problematic or frustrating: this book shows how short-term workers can offer libraries much more than just a solution to being shorthanded. This book will help readers better plan and more efficiently manage short-term staffing arrangements, covering how to best work with community volunteers, students earning service or academic credit, library school internships, grant contract staff, librarian post-graduate residencies, and work-study student employees. The authors present models of temporary staff human resource development and demonstrate how to apply them effectively in libraries of any size, describing how to train and enculturate short-term staff into your organization to maximize productivity. When temporary and long-term staff are set up to work together properly, having temporary staff benefits the organization with more than just their labor—the situation can refresh and update the skills of incumbent employees, too.

Author : Becca Boland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798216113829

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Making the Most of Teen Library Volunteers by Becca Boland Pdf

When teens volunteer at the library, they gain new skills, make connections, and build their resumes, while libraries benefit from a new generation of advocates. This guide shows librarians how to establish or develop a teen volunteer program. Advocating a flexible approach, this book speaks to every library, including both public and school libraries. From small libraries with no budget to large libraries with seemingly endless budgets and everything in between, all of the concepts covered can be scaled up or down to meet the needs of the community being served. The book begins with the big picture, discussing benefits to teens, libraries, and communities; it then reviews volunteer types and volunteer possibilities for teens, including the traditional roles of shelving and programming as well as passion-led projects, programming opportunities, and special initiatives and drives. Specific volunteer roles are described in depth, with instructions for practical applications, and concrete examples and experiences from various types of libraries illustrate principles discussed. Readers will also learn how to establish volunteer partnerships within and outside of the library. The book ends with a discussion of methods for evaluation and assessment.

Author : Carla Campbell Lehn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798216087700

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From Library Volunteer to Library Advocate by Carla Campbell Lehn Pdf

This guide will show you how to reinvigorate your library's volunteer program using your community as a resource. Volunteers are essential to a library's well-being, but running a volunteer program is a complicated task that could often be done so as to bring more benefit to your library. This book draws on the author's decades of experience in public libraries and the nonprofit arena, and on cutting-edge professional trends in volunteer management, to show you how to tap into each of your volunteer's talents and match them to your library's needs. Providing multiple tactics for improving your library's volunteer program, the book covers redoubling your recruitment efforts to attract more volunteers, more logically assigning roles, and growing your relationships with volunteers. In addition, it addresses common problems with volunteers and potential barriers to success and explains how to overcome them. No matter what size your library, its volunteer staff, or its budget, this practical book will help you to streamline your volunteer program and more effectively engage the community to transform your library into a flourishing community center.

Author : Sally Gardner Reed
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0786484101

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Library Volunteers--Worth the Effort! by Sally Gardner Reed Pdf

Faced with ever growing patron demands, tight budgets, and limited personnel, libraries are relying more and more on volunteers to assist the paid staff. But for every professional who "manages" volunteers there is a horror story--a "problem volunteer" who lacked the talent, commitment, team spirit, personality or available time to do the job. How does the busy librarian develop and manage a successful volunteer program? This is the guide to implementing and managing a volunteer program tailored to the needs of the individual library. Issues such as recruitment and placement, training, development, and evaluation, and the "challenging" volunteer are discussed. Sample applications, advertisements, press releases, job descriptions, and skills and aptitude tests are also included.

Author : Sondra Cuban
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313094620

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Serving New Immigrant Communities in the Library by Sondra Cuban Pdf

Build strong bridges with new members of your community. With this insightful guide, you will learn how to assess your current organizational performance with immigrants, gather data, and use that information to gain support for organizational initiatives. You will also discover how to adapt policies to better fit changing needs, overcome language barriers, develop public relations strategies that reach immigrants, and build culturally relevant collections, services, and programs for a changing community. Filled with quotes, anecdotes, and profiles from the author's research with immigrant communities, the book provides both a positive vision and practical plan for serving immigrants in your library, school, or organization.

Author : Preston Driggers,Eileen Dumas
Publisher : ALA Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838910645

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Managing Library Volunteers by Preston Driggers,Eileen Dumas Pdf

Quality volunteers can make a world of difference in today's library, and this hands-on guide gives you everything you need to maximize your library's services and build a bridge between your library and the community it serves.

Author : Vera Gubnitskaia
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781476633176

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The Relevant Library by Vera Gubnitskaia Pdf

 At a time when libraries are no longer the leading proprietors of information, many library professionals find themselves rethinking their purpose. In this collection of new essays, contributors share their experiences and ideas for keeping libraries integral to changing communities. Innovative approaches and best practices are discussed for strategic planning, packaging, branding and marketing, funding issues, physical spaces, collection needs and trends, partnerships, programming and services, professional education, and staffing.

Author : Carol Smallwood,Lura Sanborn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781476664736

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Gender Issues and the Library by Carol Smallwood,Lura Sanborn Pdf

With the legalization of same-sex marriage and the explosion of LGBTQ news coverage in recent years, gender studies is a subject of intense interest in popular media and a part of the curriculum at many colleges. Libraries realize the importance of supporting the field yet many have difficulty finding resources and programming ideas. This book provides case studies and a range of innovative solutions for better meeting patron needs. Twenty-seven chapters are arranged into sections covering Research and Library Instruction, History and Herstory, Programming, Collections and Beyond, and Resources.

Author : Carol Smallwood,Vera Gubnitskaia
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781476665399

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Library Partnerships with Writers and Poets by Carol Smallwood,Vera Gubnitskaia Pdf

Libraries and writers have always had a close working relationship. Rapid advances in technology have not changed the nontechnical basis of that cooperation: author talks, book signings and readings are as popular as ever, as are workshops and festivals. This collection of 29 new essays from nearly 50 contributors from across the United States presents a variety of projects, programs and services to help librarians establish relationships with the literary world, promote literature to the public and foster creativity in their communities.

Author : Su Epstein,Carol Smallwood,Vera Gubnitskaia
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781476672038

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Social Justice and Activism in Libraries by Su Epstein,Carol Smallwood,Vera Gubnitskaia Pdf

In a rapidly changing world with myriad conflicting voices, the library's role as a place of safety and inclusion and as a repository of knowledge cannot be overstated. Librarians must serve as community leaders with a mission to educate and inform, ready to model the principles they support. The question for many is: how? Experienced librarians offer ideas and guidance in seeking new creative paths, working to support change in library organizations and reexamining principles that may be taken for granted. Theoretical foundations are discussed, along with practical ideas such as the creation a book groups for the intellectually disabled and partnership with social workers or advocates for employees with disabilities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Documentation
ISBN : PURD:32754083741706

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Library of Congress Magazine by Anonim Pdf