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WRL Volunteer Position Description
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POSITION TITLE: Youth Services Volunteer
DIVISION: Youth Services
SUPERVISOR: Youth Services Volunteer Coordinator
LENGTH OF COMMITMENT: Variable
TIME INVOLVEMENT: Varying schedule of mornings, afternoons, evenings; weekdays and weekends. Some tasks may be done at home.POSITION SUMMARY: Assists the Youth Services Director and the Youth Services Staff with a variety of Youth Services tasks and programs. The purpose of the tasks are the enhancement of the children=s programs through which literacy and love of reading are fostered, and to help maintain the collection so that staff and patrons can easily locate and identify materials.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: Listening to children share their summer reading books and recording the visits and the incentives received; assisting with arts and crafts programs; preparing arts and crafts, storytime and summer reading materials; self reading and shelf shifting; re-shelving and/or relocating library materials to their proper locations.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Administers work with regular walking, bending, light to medium lifting and other limited physical activities. Regular contact is made with other volunteers, employees and library patrons.
QUALIFICATIONS: Ability and willingness to understand and carry out oral and written instructions efficiently. Ability to maintain good work habits, work under minimal supervision, follow through on numerous details and meet deadlines. Ability to work well with other volunteers, employees, children and young adults. Ability to lift 25 pounds and push loaded books carts. Willingness to undergo training.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Minimum age 16 (unless approved by Youth Services volunteer coordinator).
More on Volunteering at WRL Complete a volunteer application and submit it on-line. | Return to Volunteering at WRL | Read about the Fifty-Hour Club Learn more about the Kids' Corner Volunteer Pages FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Benjamin J. Goldberg
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