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Get Involved: Powered By Your Library

Discover the importance of engaging Baby Boomers in volunteering and learn how your library can become a hub for community involvement. Join the Get Involved initiative of the California State Library and VolunteerMatch to make a high-level impact!

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Get Involved: Powered By Your Library

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  1. Get Involved:Powered By Your Library A New Initiative of the California State Library for 2008/09

  2. Baby Boomers: Who Are They? & Why Should We Care? • 77 million Baby Boomers born between 1946 and 1964 (in 2008 are ages 44 - 62) • Volunteer currently at higher rates than past generations did at the same age • Most educated and financially secure generation in history • Have been in workforce & have professional skills they want to share to make high level of impact • Nearly 2/3 of Boomer non-volunteers want to get involved but don’t know how

  3. Great Expectations: Boomers and the Future of Volunteering VolunteerMatch User Research Study VolunteerMatch Where volunteering begins. Presented by:

  4. Long Overdue: A Fresh Look at Public Attitudes About Libraries in the 21st Century • Americans who are active in the community and vote regularly are more likely to have a library card and favor taxes to support libraries. • These are also the people that local politicians are most likely to listen to. • However, these highly engaged citizens are generally unaware of funding issues that threaten library services. Source: A Report by Public Agenda supported by Americans for Libraries Council and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2006

  5. Get Involved:Powered By Your Library • Partnership with VolunteerMatch.org • Advisory Task Force • Pilot libraries identifying best practices • Virtual Trainings archived to date: http://rurallibraries.org/webinar/12-03-2008/ http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/276/index.html • May Training Institute on re-tooling volunteer programs

  6. Get Involved: Timeline • January - March • More virtual training • VolunteerMatch enrollment – post volunteer opportunities! • February – • New VolunteerMatch hub site unveiled • Library Teams Apply for Get Involved Institute • May 5 – 7 • Get Involved Institute

  7. VolunteerMatch:Account Registration • Every public library building will be loaded into the system – Won’t be active until you say so . . . • Invitation from VolunteerMatch via e-mail soon! • Do you want one centralized administrator? Separate ones by branch? Or another design? • Library Director will be default administrator – you can change that later or give me designated administrator contact info now – invite will go to that person -- clehn@library.ca.gov • Wondering if you are registered already? And if so, who/how? (clehn@library.ca.gov for list)

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