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Author: Preston Driggers
Publisher: ALA Editions
Published: 2011-01-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780838910641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuality 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: Matthew Liao-Troth
Publisher: IAP
Published: 2008-09-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1607528312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolunteer management has many challenges, not the least of which is how we study it and view it. Academics examine it from a variety of disciplines and practitioners experience it in a variety of contexts. However both approaches have limitations. In academia we go to public administration schools to learn about public and nonprofit management, to business schools to apply the principles of private enterprise to nonprofit management, to sociology departments to study the phenomena of volunteerism, to psychology departments to understand the motives of volunteers, and economics departments to examine the value or economic worth of volunteerism. The liability of the academic approach is the segmentation of study and research into departmental areas. The study of volunteers and volunteerism needs to cross all of these organizational and discipline boundaries to be fully appreciated and understood as a field of interest. In contrast, practitioners view volunteer management from their own unique experiences. They try to gauge success in volunteer management based on what they have encountered in particular organizations, towns, cultures, and countries in which they work. As important as these insights are, they are difficult to generalize beyond local settings. Just because an individual has been successful in working with volunteers, it does not mean that the lessons learned in one situation can be translated to others under all conditions. The target audience for this volume is anyone who manages volunteers. The goal of the volume is to demonstrate the breadth of thought on volunteer management, both across disciplines and a wide range of settings in which volunteers work.
Author: Rashelle S. Karp
Publisher: Chicago : Library Administration and Management Association, American Library Association
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis booklet provides guidance on how to manage and make the most of volunteers in a library. It covers areas such as planning, generating commitment, and documenting and budgeting projects. The focus is upon seeing volunteers as enhancements and not as threats to library jobs.
Author: Sally Gardner Reed
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2010-07-27
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780786484102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFaced 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: United States. Office of Civilian Defense
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leslie Edmonds Holt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2013-12-12
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1610690494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering 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: Allison Renner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-04-20
Total Pages: 119
ISBN-13: 1538116928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolunteers are one of the most overlooked and underused resources available to nonprofits and other organizations. This guide will help find willing volunteers in the community and utilize their skills in a way that benefits the volunteer as well as the organization. Overseeing volunteers can be a daunting task. On top of all of the other duties library staff are typically responsible for, creating a volunteer program from scratch can seem nearly impossible. The work doesn’t stop once the program is created: volunteers have to be trained and retained; job duties have to be written, assessed, and refreshed; the benefits of the program need to be documented and weighed. While “volunteer coordinator” is easily a full-time job, it rarely is in the library or nonprofit world. Anything that can make volunteer management easier on library and nonprofit staff will benefit everyone involved. Library Volunteers: A Practical Guide for Librarians covers every aspect of volunteer programs, from creating, to recruiting, to retaining and keeping the opportunities fresh and appealing. It has information pertaining to elementary age, teenage, and adult volunteers, including innovative and unique volunteer positions that can be offered to them. The book covers both school and public library settings, but the information provided can be adapted slightly to benefit any organization that has a need for volunteer help. It looks beyond the scope of the library to include information on outreach and partnering with community organizations to provide volunteer opportunities to library patrons and volunteers on a broader scale. It is a complete handbook for library and nonprofit employees to use to solve any volunteer issue they might have.
Author: Carol Smallwood
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-09-09
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0786497807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolunteers 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: Dorcas Hand
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-06-11
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 159158812X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book published about independent school libraries since 1985, this work offers both the independent school library community and the broader school library community a wealth of insights into excellence in library practice. Independent School Libraries: Perspectives on Excellence offers readers insights into best practices in library services for school communities, using examples drawn from independent schools of various sizes, descriptions, and locations across the United States. Two overview essays introduce a statistical analysis of independent schools. Each of the remaining essays provides perspective on a different aspect of library practice, including staffing, advocacy, assessment, technology, collaboration, programs beyond the curriculum, intellectual freedom and privacy, budgeting, accreditation, disaster planning, and more. Because independent school librarians work across divisions and without a mandate to adhere to state or national standards, they have the freedom to explore and refine best practice in a school library setting. Fortunately, the ideas and methods they have developed, many of which are on display here, can be applied in any school library.
Author: Sam Nugent
Publisher: Weigl Publishers
Published: 2017-08-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1489658599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLocal libraries across the United States offer approximately 4 million programs each year that assist more than 92 million people. Libraries rely on volunteers to carry out many day-to-day tasks. Learn how volunteers can help keep libraries running smoothly in Local Library Volunteer, a title in the Volunteer Jobs series. Each book in the Volunteer Jobs series focuses on the importance of voluntarism, while offering detailed descriptions of volunteer positions and advice for how to apply for them.
