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Addressing Common Staff Concerns About Volunteers
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This is adapted from Carla Lehn's book, "Volunteer Involvement in California Libraries: Best Practices." The complete book may be found online here: http://www.library.ca.gov/lds/getinvolved/docs/F-resources/VolunteerInvolvementInCaliforniaLibraries-BestPractices.pdf Also, Carla's online course in volunteer engagement is available free here: http://www.transforminglifeafter50.org/tools-ideas/volunteers |
Engaging Staff and Unions
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Staff Resistance
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Training Materials |
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Build Staff Buy-In for Volunteer Engagement
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Often one of the biggest challenges to a new model of volunteer engagement is the resistance of paid staff. The attitudes and fears of our co-workers prevent us from expanding the work that volunteers do. But, if you've never worked with volunteers before, it can be scary. This one hour webinar presented by Jennifer Bennett from VolunteerMatch discusses strategies for working with paid staff to engage volunteers. It also covers what you can do to alleviate some of those fears, strategies for working within a Union environment, and how you can train and support your coworkers as they become responsible for managing volunteers. |
Staff Guides for Working with Volunteers, Engaging Staff and Unions, Staff Training
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Staff Resistance, Unions
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Training Materials |
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Getting Staff Buy-In for Volunteer Engagement Webinar
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Jennifer Rackow presents success stories on one of the more difficult challenges libraries have faced – getting buy in from library staff members who are initially resistant to engaging volunteers. (October 2010, 60 minutes) |
Engaging Staff and Unions, Staff Training
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Staff Resistance, Webinar
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Training Materials |
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Getting Staff on Board- Story Time Conductors
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Former Roseville library director Rachel Delgadillo talks about how she worked with her Children's Librarians to overcome their resistance to volunteers in order to expand their library storytime program. (February 2010, 5 minutes) |
Capacity Building, Engaging Staff and Unions, Staff Training
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Video, Staff Resistance, Storytime, children's services
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Training Materials |
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Management's Role in Eliminating Staff Resistance to Volunteers in the Library
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This 6 & 1/2 minute narrated slide presentation addresses the steps management can take to reduce staff resistance to volunteers in the library. Many thanks to our colleague, Cathy Crosthwaite for creating and sharing it. |
Capacity Building, Engaging Staff and Unions
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Staff Resistance
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Training Materials |
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Staff Guide for Working with Volunteers -- San Francisco Public Library
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Guidelines for staff who work with volunteers at the San Francisco Public Library. |
Staff Guides for Working with Volunteers, Staff Training
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staff, Staff Resistance
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Management Tool |
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What Leaders of Volunteers Can Do to Gain Executive Attention
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A list of steps to take when trying to engage senior management in understanding the importance of the volunteer program by Susan J. Ellis of Energize, Inc. |
Engaging Staff and Unions
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staff buy-in, Staff Resistance
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Training Materials |
