Resources and approaches for engaging volunteers in your library.

A list of ideas for encouraging the community to join your Friends group, as well as program ideas for the Friends and your library.

Guiding Ohio Online is an AmeriCorps program that places members in rural Ohio libraries to deliver digital literacy training through computer classes, one-on-one computer assistance, outreach, and volunteer recruitment.

This handbook from Connecticut, created with the help of LSTA funding, shows how to start and run a Friends of the Library.

This special toolkit will help with the establishment of Friends groups of all types. The first half of the toolkit is for libraries that already have a Friends group and are interested in increasing its membership and/or its level of activity this gu. The second half of this toolkit will address the revitalization of existing Friends groups.

You may need technology volunteers, but you want to choose the right ones. This article details how to find the best volunteers to suit your library's needs.

Brochure created by the North Suburban Library System explaining the basic roles and responsibilties of a Trustee.

A description of the responsibilities of the library's Director, Board of Trustees, and Friends.