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Volunteer Shelver
Time Commitment
1-2 hours, weekly, 3 month commitment
Purpose
Volunteer sorts and shelves library materials
Benefits of Volunteering
- Chance to meet new people
- To work in pleasant surroundings
- To develop new skills
- Give something back to the community
- Feel needed and valued
- Satisfaction from accomplishment
Duties & Responsibilities
- Sorts and shelves all library material in correct order
- Straightens, shifts, and edges collections as a routine part of shelving
- Ensures that collections are in order through regular shelf-reading
- Picks up loose items left on carts, shelves, or on the floor, and returns them to their proper place
Skills/Abilities/Qualifications Required
- Ability to work harmoniously with staff, patrons and
other volunteers - Ability to read print
- Ability to place items in alphabetical and numerical order using the Dewey Decimal System (will train)
- Ability to follow verbal and written instructions
- Ability to shelve or retrieve library materials from
all heights of shelves, and from all locations in the
library - Ability to load and push a library bookcart to appropriate locations in the library
