1. Expanding the Volunteer Role
Get Involved: Powered By Your Library
A New Initiative of the California
State Library for 2008/09
Expanding the Volunteer Role
December 3-4, 2008

2. Get Involved: Powered By Your Library
Partnership with VolunteerMatch.org on a special library recruitment portal -- library as “hub” for volunteerism
Advisory Task Force
Pilot libraries identifying best practices
Today’s Webinar and more to come
May Training Institute on how to re-tool your volunteer program

3. Agenda Trends and Issues Volunteer Engagement Foundation
Expanded Volunteer Roles
Position Descriptions

4. Imagine a world in which your library has all the resources it needs to:
— Boomer Volunteer Engagement: Collaborate Today, Thrive Tomorrow
Serve more clients
Deliver more programs
Strengthen its staff
Spread its message more widely, and
Increase its financial stability. 4

5. Trends and Issues Time Collaboration Technology Generational Shift
Results focused
Culture shift
Flickr: jamelah

6. Boomers Leading Change
Flexibility
Control
Achievement
Entrepreneurial
Partners
Flickr: jaypeg21

7. Boomers Leading Change
Community
Legacy
Health benefits
Family volunteering
Flickr: jaypeg21

8. Technology
24/7 Volunteering
Virtual Matching
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9. Steward critical initiatives
Build capacity
Increase impact
Expand influence
Steward critical initiatives
Access abundance
Foundation
Flickr: LincolnStein

10. Changing the Volunteer Management Paradigm
Engagement
Recruitment
Cultivation and Networking
Placement
Negotiation and Agreement

11. Changing the Volunteer
Management Paradigm
Supervision
Support
Review
Measurement
Recognition
Acknowledgment
Retention
Sustainability

12. Effective Cultivation Interviewing and Negotiation
Core Competencies
Core Competencies
Organizational Support
Needs Assessment
Effective Cultivation
Interviewing and Negotiation
Orientation & Training
Supervision & Support
Sustainability Strategies

13. Structuring Volunteer Positions
Seasonal
Substitute
Job Sharing
Rotation
Segmentation
Team Volunteering
Virtual 13

14. Structuring Volunteer Positions
Consultant
Provide professional skills and/or content expertise
Coach
Share wisdom and advice in a content area 
Mentor
Provide support 14

15. Ensure consistency and continuity
Position Descriptions
Ensure consistency and continuity
Basis for support, cultivation, and sustainability
Clarify expectations and increases accountability

16. Volunteer Position Descriptions
Title
Key Responsibilities
Impact and Outcome
Training and Support
Commitment
Qualifications
Benefits

17. Critical Questions How can you improve current position descriptions?
Where could volunteers start leading?
Who are your champions?
What staff training and development do you need?

18. Get Involved: Next Steps and Timeline
January – March
More Virtual Training
VolunteerMatch Enrollment – Post Volunteer Opportunities!
February –
New VolunteerMatch Hubsite Unveiled
Library Teams Apply for Get Involved Institute
May 5 – 7
Get Involved Institute
Flickr: Joe Lanman

19. Thank you.
When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.
-Don Helder Camara