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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
Build Staff Buy-In for Volunteer Engagement Often one of the biggest challenges to volunteer engagement is the resistance of paid staff. Often attitudes and fears of our co-workers prevent us… more	Staff Training, Capacity Building, Engaging Staff and Unions	Staff Resistance, staff buy-in	2023
Volunteer Recognition Ideas Sixty volunteer appreciation ideas from Keela.com	Staff Training	recognition	2023
Introduction to the Purpose-Driven Vounteer Impact Model Volunteers contribute to a library’s mission, labor, donations, awareness, and reputation. Yet, reports about volunteers often omit these… more	Staff Training	impact, outcome measurement, Data Management	2023
Staff Training: Volunteer Vaccination Verification - San Jose CA Training developed by San Jose Public Library for volunteer engagement staff at branches to learn how to do volunteer vaccine verifications in order… more	Staff Training	COVID-19	2022
Volunteer Engagement 101 This one hour archived video was presented by Carla Lehn of the Get Involved: Powered by Your Library initiative for the incoming AmeriCorps members… more	Staff Training	job descriptions, Recruitment, Staff Resistance, staff buy-in, Motivation	2022
VolunteerMatch "Tour" This is a recording of an online meeting "Tour" provided for incoming AmeriCorps members attached to California Library Literacy Services in December… more	VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources, Staff Training, On-line Volunteer Recruitment	VolunteerMatch, Skilled Volunteers, skilled, virtual, virtual volunteer	2022
Preparing Co-Workers to Lead Volunteers Online and On Land Ideas for training staff to engage with volunteers.	Staff Training, Capacity Building	Staff Resistance, staff buy-in, staff training	2022
Service Enterprise & Libraries: Is it for you? This webinar was presented on July 27, 2022, and was presented by and based on the Points of Light Service Enterprise certification experiences of… more	Staff Training, Capacity Building	Service Enterprise, strategic planning	2022
Tools for Volunteer Engagement Success This one hour archived video was presented by Carla Lehn of the Get Involved: Powered by Your Library initiative for the incoming AmeriCorps members… more	On-line Volunteer Recruitment, VolunteerMatch Tools and Resources, Staff Training	VolunteerMatch, online recruitment	2022
Building Back Better: Assessing Needs & Identifying New Opportunities This is the recording of a 1 hour webinar presented by Beth Steinhorn of VQ Volunteer Strategies for the Get Involved initiative on March 17, 2022.… more	Staff Training, Capacity Building	COVID-19, trends, strategic planning, planning	2022
Bringing Volunteers Back: “Re-Booting” as We Come Out of the Pandemic This one-hour live online meeting was held on July 13, 2022 and features California library volunteer engagement leaders sharing their experiences… more	Capacity Building	COVID-19	2022
Tips for Communications and outreach that honor diversity, equity and inclusion Nine tips for communication that can be used as a checklist.	Capacity Building, Staff Training	communications, diversity, equity, inclusion	2022
Bibliography on Volunteer Engagement Bibliography and Web Resources on Volunteer Engagement developed by Carla Lehn	Capacity Building, Staff Training	bibliography, Lehn	2022
Research and Case Studies Regarding Virtual Volunteering Research on virtual volunteering compiled and updated in March 2022 by Jayne Cravens of Coyote Communications.	Capacity Building, Engaging High Impact Volunteers	virtual, virtual volunteer	2022
Consequences of Good v. Bad Volunteer Experiences A brief article detailing a couple of ways to make your volunteers have a good experience, or to respond to situations where someone's had a bad… more	Staff Training		2022
5 Tips for Recruiting Volunteers Five recruitment tips for volunteer management consultant, Rob Jackson.	Capacity Building	Recruitment	2022
Online Book Sale Operation - Mesa AZ The link below to a 10 minute video will introduce you to the Mesa Public Library's amazing online booksale operation (about $100,000/year) which is… more	Engaging High Impact Volunteers, Capacity Building, Job Specific Volunteer Training	online booksales, Friends, Friends of the Library, Booksales	2022
I Just Don’t Have Time: Prioritize Your Way to Productivity If you don't manage your time, your time will manage you. Determining what to focus our attention on is an essential critical skill. So often we… more	Capacity Building, Staff Training	time management, volunteer leaders, productivity	2022
5 Tips for Recruiting Volunteers Five recruitment tips from Volunteer Management consultant Rob Jackson.	Capacity Building	Recruitment	2022
First Day Volunteer Orientation Checklist - Kitchener Public Library This checklist is used by the Kitchener Public Library for a volunteer's first day of orientation/training.	Volunteer Orientation	checklist, orientation, Training	2022