Managing Library Volunteers: A Practical Toolkit (Ala Editions) - Softcover

Dumas, Eileen; Driggers, Preston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838908063 ISBN 13: 9780838908068

Publisher: ALA Editions, 2002

Synopsis

Volunteers play a vital role in successful libraries across the county, and as staffing budgets shrink and change, it is more important now than ever to create and sustain a volunteer program that works to your, advantage. This hands-on guide to recruiting, training, managing, and recognizing library volunteers is packed with ideas that will help you to both start from scratch or reenergize the system you already have. It is a must-have for any size or type of budget-savvy, proactive library. Organized around the time line of the volunteer recruitment process, this practical toolkit covers the gamut of issues from assessing needs to creating policy, whether at a large system or a single branch, public, special, or academic library.

Using tested management guidelines, you will learn how to: - Find and recruit top-notch people - Match the volunteers you have with the help you need - Keep these valuable human assets stimulated and satisfied - Adapt proven management guidelines for any library situation Armed with more than 40 forms and real-life examples that you can use and customize, you will have everything you need to increase your services, generate publicity, and build a bridge between your library and the community it serves, all the while developing a superlative volunteer program. Sign up today!

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About the Author

Preston Driggers has worked in private and public sector human resources management for more than 25 years. He is currently Personnel and Risk Manager for the Douglas Public Library District in Colorado. An active participant in the Colorado Libraries Volunteer Managers Council, he also serves as associate faculty member of Regis University where he teaches courses in orginizational behavior, human resources, and the sociology of work. Driggers earned master's degrees in industrial administration and sociology from the University of Illinols and Arizona State University respectively and a doctorate degree in organizational development from Colorado State University. Eileen Dumas is the special services librarian at the Aurora Public Library in Colorado and has worked in volunteer management since 1991. She has been active in local volunteer organizations serving as board member of the Directors of Volunteers in Agencies, as chair of the City of Aurora Volunteer Coodinators Group, and as a member of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program. Since 1998, she has edited the "Volunteer Line" column that runs in Colorado Libraries. Dumas earned a master's degree in library science from Indiana University.

Edition details

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0838908063
• ISBN 13: 9780838908068
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277