Age Has Its Benefits!

Are you a volunteer who is 55 years old or older? If so, we have a partnership with the Corporation for National & Community Service (funded by Americorp) that offers supplemental medical insurance that covers you as you travel to and from the library, and while you are here volunteering! To find out more and get signed up for this perk, contact Linda Ballard (see above.) 

Youth Service Group

Feeling creative? Want to help with the Library's Summer Reading Program?  Join the Youth Service Group, a corps of volunteers that assists with youth and teen programs all summer long. If you like comics & superheroes, drawing or painting, the Library is the place to be! Always wanted to learn Bollywood dancing? Perform in a play? Learn the art of Henna? Youth Service Group volunteers are for ages 12 & up or going into 7 th grade. Sign up and orientation will take place June 1st and June 5th from 3:30-5:30 in the McKune Room. No appointment needed- just drop in one day or the other. Tell eligible friends or sibs, bring your calendar and sign up for events and shifts you would like to help with. Call Karen or Edith @ 475-8732 with any questions. We need YOU to make the Summer Reading Program happen!

Volunteer Opportunities and Application

Book Sale Manager

Do you love to work around books? Are you an organized person who likes people and is looking for a way to use your talents to support the library? If so, we have a great volunteer opportunity for you! We need a manager for our bi-monthly used books sales.

This individual is a member of the Used Book Sale Task Force and is responsible for scheduling and running the sale. Approximately 16-20 hours between each bi-monthly sale is required to satisfatorily fill this position. Tasks include:

1. Maintain all sale processes and procedures.
2. Assure sales floor is set up correctly.
3. Train/coordinate staff and make ad hoc decisions regarding pricing, logistics, etc. during sale or delegate responsibility.
4. Recruit and schedule all required volunteers for the sale.
5. Assure sales floor is cleaned up/reset after sale.
6. Communicate PR/sale information to Communication Chair on Friends’ Board.
7. Attend Used Book Sale Task Force meetings, approx. six times per year.

Book Bin Emptiers

We need three or four volunteers to empty the book donation bins on Tuesdays anytime, on Saturday OR Sunday, or to help another volunteer with this task on Thursdays. Work involves moving filled bins to the basement, removing donations and stacking them on tables to be sorted for processing. You may also request to be trained to scan the donations for value by our online vendor.  Contact Jan Carr (jancarr9214@gmail.com)  or Linda Ballard (lballard@chelseadistrictlibrary.org) 475-8732 xt. 202 if interested.

READING BUDDIES!

Read to Your Library Buddy is a new program and the library needs your help to make it a success.  Volunteer to listen to a child read to you every Thursday during Summer Reading, and help them gain confidence and strengthen their reading skills.

• Read to Your Library Buddy pairs teen and adult volunteers with a  child (4th grade and lower) on Thursdays from June 13-July 25 (except July 4th), from 2-3:30 pm, to read anything they want together.
• The program aims to help boost young readers' skills and get them excited about reading.
• There will be a mandatory training session at the library on June 6 at 3:30 pm led by Lisa Kaemming, Reading Specialist from North Creek Elementary School.
• Volunteers sign up for 90 minutes, but each child has a 15 minute session, so they may see up to 6 children each time.
• Volunteers are not tutors, nor are they teaching how to read, rather, they are listening and encouraging and reading.
• Both volunteers (big buddies) and children (little buddies) may read during a session.
• The only requirements to be a Reading Buddy are: love of reading; desire to help children; patience, enthusiasm and an encouraging attitude.

Please click on the link below to get more information and the Buddy application.

http://www.chelsea.lib.mi.us/resources/pdf_files/ReadingBuddy.pdf

Translator Needed-

Need someone who can translate Russian and Polish into English. Please contact Linda - see below.

The library is always looking for reliable and enthusiastic volunteers. Opportunities range from handyman projects to database entry and various other projects. Read more about these opportunities. We may not have needs in all areas so see above for current openings.

Download a volunteer application in Microsoft Word or PDF format.

If you have any questions or wish to volunteer, please contact Linda Ballard, at (734) 475-8732 x202

All volunteers are also Friends of the Library. To learn more about the activities of this group, see the Friends page.