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Get Involved: Powered by Your Library

Video Training

Videos and Webinars by topic

  1. Visions of Service
  2. Engaging Staff and Unions
  3. Engaging High Impact Volunteers
  4. On-line Volunteer Recruitment
  5. Baby Boomers
  6. Capacity Building
  7. VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources
  8. VolunteerMatch FAQs
  1. Visions of Service
  2. Engaging Staff and Unions
  3. Engaging High Impact Volunteers
    • Successful Volunteer Recruitment Strategies: Capturing the Talent of Baby Boomers and the Generations that Follow (60 minutes)

      • Do you ever wonder what motivates volunteers?
      • Are you wondering where to find talented volunteers?
      • What projects or programs do you have that will attract them?

      • Baby boomers and the generations that follow are seeking new ways to use their skills and experience to make a difference in their communities. Your library is uniquely positioned to benefit from these volunteers. This webinar will provide tools, techniques, and models for volunteer engagement.

      At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: • Understand the potential for engaging high impact, skilled volunteers to assist public libraries.

      • Know how to engage this talent to extend the library’s capacity in the community and to benefit from these new library advocates and supporters.
      • Understand the motivations behind why people volunteer.
      • Be able to create diverse and meaningful skilled volunteer positions that will attract a broad range of community volunteers, especially baby boomers.
      • Plan to implement a variety of successful volunteer recruitment strategies that go far beyond the “Volunteer Here” sign on the Circulation Desk.

    • Discussion with Mission Viejo Public Library—Valerie Maginnis, Director; Stephanie Tanton, Public Services Director; and Louise Williams, Event Planner Volunteer
      Moderator: Stephen Ristau (2010, 35 minutes)
    • Harness the Power of Volunteers @ Your Library, a Eureka Leadership Institute Webinar—Jamie Finley, Roseville, Lia Hernandez, Huntington Beach, Kaye Moore, San Jose (March 2010, 60 minutes)
    • Interview with Gary Maxworthy, Purpose Prize Winner
      Moderator: Stephen Ristau (2009, 35 minutes)
    • Creating High Impact Volunteer Agreements webinar with Jill Friedman Fixler and Jennifer Rackow (February 2009, 90 minutes)
    • Engaging Pro Bono and Skilled Volunteer webinar- Jennifer Bennett (November 2009, 60 minutes)
  4. On-Line Volunteer Recruitment
  5. Baby Boomers
  6. Capacity Building
  7. VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources
  8. VolunteerMatch FAQs

    9. Videos and Webinars listed by delivery date

    • Video
      • Meet Monrovia Public Library’s Volunteer Management Team -- 3 high skilled volunteers who serve as a Team with the Library’s part-time volunteer coordinator to help to take on specific responsibilities to help increase and sustain the expanding roles of volunteers at the library. (July 2011, 3:42 min)
      • Tips from Monrovia Public Library’s Volunteer Management Team (July 2011, 3:10 min) – Listen to the team describe their goals, and how they reach out to find ways to engage volunteers in meaningful ways throughout the library.
      • Re-posting Tutorial – One of the most important tools you can use on VolunteerMatch to get your volunteer opportunities noticed is “Re-Posting,” which keeps your opportunity closer to the top of the search results. This 2 minute tutorial will show you how to use this tool. (June 2011, 2:16 min)

    We have captured video of all unduplicated programs from the two institutes. They are organized so that your library staff can view individual program segments alone or in a team and profit from the inspiration and information about skilled volunteer engagement.

    • Webinars

    These 60-90 minute webinars provide practical tools and strategies to help libraries initiate and expand their volunteer engagement programs.

    Questions about the Get Involved Initiative
    Carla Lehn
    clehn@library.ca.gov