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 non-volunteers want to get involved but don’t know how

Great Expectations: Boomers and the Future of Volunteering

VolunteerMatch User Research Study

Presented by:

VolunteerMatchWhere volunteering begins.

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/12-03-2008/

http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/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 -- clehn@library.ca.gov

• Wondering if you are registered already? And if so, who/how? (clehn@library.ca.gov for list)