Library Volunteers: A Practical Guide for Librarians is a complete handbook to starting, restructuring, or maintaining a volunteer program. Volunteers are one of the most overlooked and underused resources available to nonprofits and other organizations. This handbook will help find willing volunteers in the community and utilize their skills in a way that benefits the volunteer as well as...

Allison Renner began volunteering as a child and has been amazed at the doors volunteering has opened for her. She volunteered with SRVS, a nonprofit organization that provides services to people with disabilities. Her dedication led to the organization hiring her as the first volunteer coordinator, where she created a volunteer program from scratch. She volunteered with Memphis Public...

This innovative series written and edited for librarians by librarians provides authoritative, practical information and guidance on a wide spectrum of library processes and operations.