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Learn more about best practices in volunteer recruitment and engagement, and how to get the results you need.

NOTE: These are examples from public libraries and should be reviewed and modified to ensure fit with local policies and culture.

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Title	Keyword	Tags	Year
Volunteer Orientation - Circulation - Huntington Beach, CA Orientation slides used by Huntington Beach Public Library with volunteers in Circulation.	Materials Handling, Job Specific Volunteer Training, Volunteer Orientation	book shelving, Circulation	2012
Volunteer Orientation - Media Center - Huntington Beach, CA Powerpoint slides used in orientation of Huntington Beach Public Library's Media Center volunteers.	Materials Handling, Job Specific Volunteer Training, Volunteer Orientation	Shelving	2012
Rural Volunteer Toolkit This toolkit was researched and written VISTA volunteers serving in Appalachian Coal Country, and in rural Colorado. They have included some of… more	Capacity Building	rural, Volunteer Recruitment, partnerships	2012
The Importance of Using and Understanding Background Check Screening This archived webinar was produced by "AL!VE" -- the Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement.	Volunteer Screening / Interviewing, Capacity Building	background checks, screening volunteers	2013
Nonprofit Volunteers: Minimizing the Risk Minimizing legal exposure is important because volunteers’ acts are generally imputed to the nonprofit organization. Specific, written volunteer… more	Capacity Building, Staff Training	Risk Management	2013
How to Design Volunteer Training that Helps (Not Hurts) Learning A brief article that provides principles of learning theory in usable form to the design of volunteer training.	Capacity Building, Job Specific Volunteer Training, Staff Training, Volunteer Orientation	Training, orientation	2013
In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity This New York Times article provides an excellent example of a company providing their skilled volunteers to address the needs of a volunteer… more	Engaging High Impact Volunteers	skilled, Skilled Volunteers	2013
Developing Training Programs for Volunteers The Who, What, How and Why of designing training programs for volunteers from the Community Toolbox.	Job Specific Volunteer Training, Volunteer Orientation	Training volunteer training	2013
ESL Conversation Circles - Training Overview This Prezi slide presentation was developed to help train volunteer ESL Conversation group facilitators. (I found it easier to view on FIrefox than… more	Job Specific Volunteer Training	ESL conversation circle, ESL	2013
VolunteerMatch Recruitment Tool - Volunteer Recommendations Did you know that VolunteerMatch has a cool new feature that recommends volunteer opportunities to the thousands of potential volunteers with… more	Volunteer Recruitment, VolunteerMatch, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources	Recruitment, VolunteerMatch, Volunteer Recommendations	2014
Building Better Library Volunteer Programs - Australia This paper was written by Dr. Susie Prestney, then Manager, Castlemaine Library, Goldfields Library Corporation, Australia following her 2014 grant-… more	Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers	Prestney, Lehn, Get Involved, Australia	2014
Homework Tutor Training - Huntington Beach Powerpoint used by Huntington Beach Public Library to train their volunteer Homework Help Tutors.	Job Specific Volunteer Training	tutor mentor homework help	2014
Millenials Want to Make a Serious Impact This blog post from Catchafire.org describes the Millenial generation -- the 80 million born between 1980 and 2000 -- and their interest in… more	Millennials	Millenials	2014
Millennials Want To Make a Serious Impact and You Can Help Insights into how to engage the Millennial Generation as volunteers and donors, and how you might be turning them off.	Volunteer Recruitment, Millennials	Millennials, Recruitment	2014
Skilled Volunteer Interview: Social Media Specialist This is a 4 minute interview with a volunteer who served as a Social Media Specialist for the California State Library. Her volunteer Position… more	Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Millennials	Skilled Volunteers, Millennials, social media, virtual	2015
Today's Volunteer: The Shift from Management to Engagement Video clip on this topic from a Get Involved Volunteer Engagement Institute in Oakland California in May 2015. (9.5 minutes)	Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Staff Training		2015
Working with Volunteers who have Full Time Jobs This 5 minute video explores working with volunteers who have full time jobs with Cathy from the Sacramento Public Library, and one of her working… more	Capacity Building, Staff Training		2015
Importance of Meaningful Written Volunteer Job Descriptions Video clip on this topic from a Get Involved Volunteer Engagement Institute in Oakland California in May 2015. (14 minutes)	Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Staff Training		2015
Help for the Volunteer Engagement Coordinator This is a 3 minute interview with volunteer Kellie, who came on board as our volunteer Assistant Volunteer Coordinator at the California State… more	Capacity Building, Staff Training		2015
Volunteer Recruitment Video clip on this topic from a Get Involved Volunteer Engagement Institute in Oakland California in May 2015. (20.5 minutes)	Volunteer Recruitment, Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers		2015