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Read-Aloud Volunteer for Seniors
Time Commitment
1-2 hours, weekly, 3 month commitment
Purpose
Read aloud to senior citizens housed in a nursing home or assisted living center.
Benefits of Volunteering
- Chance to meet new people
- To work in pleasant surroundings
- To develop new skills
- Give something back to the community
- Share your talents
- Feel needed and valued
- Enhance your resume
- Satisfaction from accomplishment
- Provide companionship
Duties & Responsibilities
- Selects reading material
- Reads to residents
- Provides feedback to library director regarding these sessions on a regular basis
Skills/Abilities/Qualifications Required
- Ability to speak and understand English, and to convey a positive, friendly attitude
- Ability to work congenially with staff, patrons and other volunteers
- Must provide own, reliable transportation
- Ability to be contacted by telephone for scheduling changes and meetings
- Ability to receive instruction from library staff, and the cooperation to abide by library policies and regulations
- Must be dependable
- Must be familiar with or willing to learn the different types of literary genre
- Must be willing to learn NoveList Plus
- Must have a love of reading, a clear loud reading voice, and a desire to share with seniors who are often no longer able to read on their own