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FOLUSA Fact Sheet: How to Organize a Friends Group
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
Fact Sheet created by FOLUSA (Friends of Libraries U.S.A.) that details how to organize a Friends group at your library.
Friends of the Library Brainstorm
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
A list of ideas for encouraging the community to join your Friends group, as well as program ideas for the Friends and your library.
- Getting to Know Your Library: the Community
- Getting to Know Your Library: Computers
- Getting to Know Your Library: eBooks, Digital Media and Databases
- Getting to Know Your Library: Marketing
- Getting to Know Your Library: Policies
- Getting to Know Your Library: Resources and Logistics
- Getting to Know Your Library: The Books!
- Getting to Know Your Library: Volunteers
- Steps to Success: Computer Class and Resource Referral List
- Steps to Success: Delivering Classroom Training
- Steps to Success: eReaders, Tablets and Smartphones
- Steps to Success: Grant Writing
- Steps to Success: Marketing
- Steps to Success: Outreach
- Steps to Success: Providing One-on-One Assistance
- Steps to Success: Plan a New Computer Class
- Steps to Success: Troubleshooting
- Steps to Success: Volunteers
- Level Up: Attend a Community Event
- Level Up: Community Data Gathering
- Level Up: Create or update a Handout
- Level Up: Create or update a Screencast or Online How-to Guide
- Level Up: Create a Volunteer Handbook
- Level Up: Demographics and Polices
- Level Up: Emerging Technology
- Level Up: Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Service
- Level Up: Google Analytics
- Level Up: Implement a New Technology
- Level Up: Open Source Software
- Level Up: Partnerships
- Level Up: Privacy
- Level Up: Reflect
- Level Up: Put Together a Technology Policy
- Level Up: Put Together a Troubleshooting Checklist
- Level Up: Safe Social Networking
- Level Up: Social Media
- Level Up: Staff Training
- Level Up: Understanding Filtering
- Level Up: Understanding the needs of People with Disabilities in Your Community
- Level Up: Understand Security
- Level Up: User Experience
- Level Up: Web Content
- Where might I find volunteers for tech training?
- Volunteer with Your Library!
- Volunteer Time Sheet
Guiding Ohio Online: Volunteer Technology Instructor Training
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
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.
Handbook for Connecticut Library Friends
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
This handbook from Connecticut, created with the help of LSTA funding, shows how to start and run a Friends of the Library.
Libraries Need Friends: A Toolkit to Create Friends Groups or to Revitalize
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
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.
New Directions for Library Volunteers
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
Resources and approaches for engaging volunteers in your library.
Recruit a Volunteer
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
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.
Technology Volunteer Job Description Samples
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
A handout from the Arlington County (VA) Public Library Cyber Center describes positions, qualifications, and time commitments that you can use as a model for your library.
What Does a Library Trustee Do?
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
Brochure created by the North Suburban Library System explaining the basic roles and responsibilties of a Trustee.
Working Together
Last Modified: 21 March 2012
A description of the responsibilities of the library's Director, Board of Trustees, and Friends.
