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

Get Involved:
Powered By Your Library
A New Initiative of the
California State Library for
2008/09
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 nonvolunteers want to get
involved but don’t know how
Great Expectations:
VolunteerMatch
Boomers and the Future of Volunteering
Where volunteering begins.
VolunteerMatch User Research Study
Presented by:
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
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/12-032008/
http://infopeople.org/training/webcast
s/webcast_data/276/index.html
• May Training Institute on
re-tooling volunteer
programs
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
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 -- [email protected]
• Wondering if you are registered already? And if
so, who/how? ([email protected] for list)