“Hi–I have to do 15 community service hours by the 23rd and I can only come in on Sunday afternoons. Can I volunteer at the library?” [Note: it's the 15th...] Anyone gotten that call before? I actually have. In all seriousness though, providing teens with enough volunteer opportunties to fufill the hours they need for graduation, for [...]
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Teen Volunteer Fair
Posted in programming, Uncategorized, Volunteering on April 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The importance of specificity…
Posted in Volunteering on July 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sorry for my lenghty blog hiatus…turns out summertime in the library is sort of insane. I’ve been very sleepy at the end of my days! So about a week ago, I had a volunteer who chose from a list of chores around the library to clean the grimy board books. When I took her down [...]
Priorities
Posted in on the job, programming, Volunteering on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today was the beginning of my 5th week at the library and I am increasingly facing difficult choices, realizing that I can’t say yes to everyone, I can’t do everything I want to do, and some days, all I can do is keep my head above water! Last week I had a meeting with a [...]
Flying by time
Posted in on the job, programming, summer reading, Volunteering on June 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Oh my goodness, time is speeding by. I don’t remember the last time I had a job where the time went so quickly. I’ve thought about doing a “day in the life” as Anna did but we’ve been so busy since Summer Reading pre-registration started that I haven’t had time to even look at the [...]
Teen Volunteer Program
Posted in Volunteering on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was my first Saturday working at the library and I took advantage of the quiet morning in my shared office to work on my volunteer program. I have had some interest in volunteering from teens–five have filled out applications so far and are scheduled to come in next week. They’ll keep track of their [...]
