Managing Library Volunteers

Managing Library Volunteers
Author: Preston Driggers
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-01-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838910641

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.

Challenges in Volunteer Management

Challenges in Volunteer Management
Author: Matthew Liao-Troth
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2008-09-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1607528312

Volunteer 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.

Volunteers in Libraries

Volunteers in Libraries
Author: Rashelle S. Karp
Publisher: Chicago : Library Administration and Management Association, American Library Association
Total Pages: 16
Release: 1993
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This 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.

Crewel

Crewel
Author: Gennifer Albin
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2012-10-16
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0374316449

Deadly Secrets Tangled Lies Woven truths Incapable. Awkward. Artless. That's what the other girls whisper behind her back. But sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys has a secret: She wants to fail. Gifted with the ability to weave time with matter, she's exactly what the Guild is looking for, and in the world of Arras, being chosen to work the looms is everything a girl could want. It means privilege, eternal beauty, and being something other than a secretary. It also means the power to manipulate the very fabric of reality. But if controlling what people eat, where they live, and how many children they have is the price of having it all, Adelice isn't interested. Not that her feelings matter, because she slipped and used her hidden talent for a moment. Now she has one hour to eat her mom's overcooked pot roast. One hour to listen to her sister's academy gossip and laugh at her dad's jokes. One hour to pretend everything's okay. And one hour to escape. Because tonight, they'll come for her.

Engaging Babies in the Library

Engaging Babies in the Library
Author: Debra J. Knoll
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2016-05-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838914454

With Knoll’s guidance, children‘s librarians will be informed and inspired to rise to the challenge of providing quality service to babies, toddlers, and care providers.

Parenting Redefined

Parenting Redefined
Author: Britney Dent
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-06-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578723631

If you are a parent of a teenager who is looking for advice, then this powerful and insightful book is just for you. In Parenting Redefined, Coach Britney reveals how to have a better relationship with your teenager by supplying testimonials and research in order to provide hope for those parenting through the teenage years. In this engaging book, Coach Britney provides the 4 key strategies you need to implement to understand your teenager, enjoy your teenager, and guide your teenager to success. She shares the importance of being proactive, gaining clarity, maintaining positivity, and developing a plan. The content and principles Coach Britney shares in this book are the same she uses to guide her clients to make the best choices in their lives to improve their academics, health, and relationships. With this book, you can gain confidence and receive hope to not only survive parenting a teenager but to thrive as you REDEFINE your role as a parent!

The Journey Is a Gift Your Identity Revealed

The Journey Is a Gift Your Identity Revealed
Author: Kaydra Mack Ward
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-11-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781952833304

A true masterpiece presented to the world directly from the throne of God, The Journey is a Gift, Your Identity Revealed enlightens the pathway of one woman's journey through life. With each pre-destined step of her journey, more of who she is becomes more evident. It is a clear testimony that cycles of setbacks and setups did not disqualify her from her true Promised Land. Instead, it catapulted her into the life that had been ordained exclusively for her. Why? Because the journey was and is truly a GIFT!

From Library Volunteer to Library Advocate

From Library Volunteer to Library Advocate
Author: Carla Campbell Lehn
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-05-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440856702

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.

Career Q&A

Career Q&A
Author: Susanne Markgren
Publisher: Information Today
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Career development
ISBN: 9781573874793

Library Volunteers--Worth the Effort!

Library Volunteers--Worth the Effort!
Author: Sally Gardner Reed
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2010-07-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780786484102

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.