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Nevada County is blessed with a team of dedicated, resourceful, thoughtful, bright and spirited volunteers. They have made our libraries sustainable through the good times and the bad.
They know the meaning of perseverance and continue to set a fine example for our community. They bring a wealth of knowledge, experience and continuity that can't be matched as they lend their varied talents to the library system. Many volunteers are retired and some are younger. All care about their libraries to the extent that they volunteer on a regular weekly basis in one or more of our branch libraries.
One example of the measure to which volunteers will go to help our library was shown in spring of 2010 when the library began a new collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce at the Penn Valley Station.
One volunteer was instrumental in helping library staff move furniture from the Station to another location thereby saving the library several hundreds of dollars.
Many have been working with us for over 20 years. Our volunteers contribute many thousands of hours a year to the daily operations of the libraries.
Below is a partial list of volunteer activities:
Literacy Tutor: Teaching adults reading and writing skills.
Book Buddy: Bringing the library to individuals in their home.
Bookie: Taking in and sorting the many donations we receive every week. Managing and stocking previously owned books for the Friends of the Libraries book sale held at the Doris Foley Library on a monthly basis. The sales from the books help fund the purchase DVDs and…more
Story time and summer reading program helpers
Housekeeping: Water plants, dust, clean computers
Shelvers of library materials, straightening and shifting as needed
Pullers of items that library patrons have placed on hold
Repairers of books, auto cassettes, Book CDs and DVDs
Discarders of library materials from online catalog
Date due card Stampers
Book, media and periodical's Processers
Delivery Volunteer of daily inter-branch library materials
Furniture movers and installers
Recyclers of library newspapers, periodicals and boxes
Manager of FOL book sales at each branch library
They know the meaning of perseverance and continue to set a fine example for our community. They bring a wealth of knowledge, experience and continuity that can't be matched as they lend their varied talents to the library system. Many volunteers are retired and some are younger. All care about their libraries to the extent that they volunteer on a regular weekly basis in one or more of our branch libraries.
One example of the measure to which volunteers will go to help our library was shown in spring of 2010 when the library began a new collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce at the Penn Valley Station.
One volunteer was instrumental in helping library staff move furniture from the Station to another location thereby saving the library several hundreds of dollars.
Many have been working with us for over 20 years. Our volunteers contribute many thousands of hours a year to the daily operations of the libraries.
Below is a partial list of volunteer activities:
Literacy Tutor: Teaching adults reading and writing skills.
Book Buddy: Bringing the library to individuals in their home.
Bookie: Taking in and sorting the many donations we receive every week. Managing and stocking previously owned books for the Friends of the Libraries book sale held at the Doris Foley Library on a monthly basis. The sales from the books help fund the purchase DVDs and…more
Story time and summer reading program helpers
Housekeeping: Water plants, dust, clean computers
Shelvers of library materials, straightening and shifting as needed
Pullers of items that library patrons have placed on hold
Repairers of books, auto cassettes, Book CDs and DVDs
Discarders of library materials from online catalog
Date due card Stampers
Book, media and periodical's Processers
Delivery Volunteer of daily inter-branch library materials
Furniture movers and installers
Recyclers of library newspapers, periodicals and boxes
Manager of FOL book sales at each branch library
