This past summer teen volunteers moved books all round the library, helped with Summer Reading Clubs and worked with librarians on special projects. We accomplished a lot and we couldn’t have completed our “Big Move” without their work.
In the past week, teens have been volunteering in record numbers. The library can’t accommodate dozens of volunteers all working at the same time. It appears that certain school organizations require lengthy volunteer work and this requirement has caught our Clarkstown teens unawares. Unfortunately, at this time we have just a limited amount of work for volunteers. All our volunteers have to be supervised and trained by staff. Especially with a holiday this week and short hours, our staff is unavailable to supervise. Also every task done by volunteers usually means that staff has to view the results of that work and make decisions based on the results. Again, at this time with a holiday week, we can’t handle any of the special projects such as the ones we did over the summer.
