Lafayette is a community of involved citizens bound by shared passions, and we're passionate about the Lafayette Library and Learning Center. All we need is you!

IMMEDIATE NEEDS by the Foundation!

OPPORTUNITIES WITH LLLCF
For more information contact Kathy Merchant, Foundation Executive Director, during normal business hours, Monday - Friday at (925) 283-6513 extension 104. The Board is actively looking for new members and other volunteers.

Volunteer Positions: 

• Board of Trustees application
• Event committee chairs
• Event volunteers
• Program hosts (e.g. sign-in, ticket sales)

Program Host Volunteer

Purpose: Provide "day of" administrative and "host" support for Consortium or other programs held at the Lafayette Library & Learning Center.

Responsibilities:

• Staff the sign-in table. 
• Help with distribution of any print material, including program evaluation form and other marketing materials.
• Support logistical needs as requested by Program Director.
• When appropriate, greet speaker and connect them with building staff person in charge of audio-visual needs of the program.
• When possible, in advance of the program, help staff prepare materials for distribution.

Training will be provided prior to assuming this volunteer role.  Often additional training/orientation will be needed for specific events or programs.

Library Docent

Purpose: to offer tours of the library in order to (a) acquaint patrons with the resources available and/or (b) give visitors a "tourist's" tour of the library...both tours with the intent of enlightening the greater community on what it means for a library to also be a Learning Center.

Responsibilities:

• Take docent training, about 1 hour time requirement.
• Conduct a practice tour.
• Be on call, within your personal schedule, to provide tours to groups or interested individuals.

Written material will be provided.

For these and other volunteer opportunities contact us at (925) 283-6513 or Email Volunteering.

WANTED!

Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation Volunteers
Enthusiasm, time, talent and teamwork...that's all you need to join one of Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundations' committees.  Hours are flexible, fun is guaranteed, so please call (925) 283-6513 or email volunteer@lafayettelib.org to find out more information. Whether your expertise lies in graphic design or writing, fundraising or event planning, media relations, social networking or budgeting and finance—All We Need Is You! Join us today.

Volunteers to join the ranks of our growing Foundation team by serving on one of the standing committees of the LLLCF Board! We are especially looking for individuals with the following skills:

• Human Resources and Personnel Administration
• Social Networking marketing/media
• Newsletter editors/writers
• Graphic designers
• Event Planners
• Grant writers
• Fundraising

Hours are flexible and fun is guaranteed, so please fill out an application and fax or send it to our Foundation office! 

Fax: (925) 282-5020

Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation
3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd. Suite 214
Lafayette, CA 94549-3915

Lafayette Library and Learning Center Volunteers
You are invited to join the Lafayette Library and Learning Center’s elite corps of dedicated volunteers! By sharing your time and talent with us, you can make a big difference in the quality of library service in your community.

Our volunteers range in age from 12 to 90. Some do short-term projects, and some stay for years! We welcome your gift of time and talents, whatever it may be. The following is a sampling of the type of help for which we are currently looking.

Adults can help with book routing and check-in, tutoring English, monitoring outside areas, and managing the crowd in the Teen Center, Children's Area, and Storytelling Corner.

Older Teens can help with tutoring, participating in the Teen Advisory Group to create and present programs (e.g. after-school crafts), creating displays (e.g., Chinese New Year) and flyers, working in the Friends Corner Book Shop and developing fundraising ideas.

Younger High School students can answer patron questions, work at special events, and assist in children’s programs.

Junior High School students can shelve picture books and videos, and monitor the library, looking for issues that need reporting or ways to tidy up.

For a detailed list of volunteer jobs, please click here.

We are looking for upwards of 4 to 5 people per day to help us in the afternoons Monday through Thursday. If you're interested in volunteering, please contact Susan Weaver at sweaver@ccclib.org.

Friends of the Lafayette Library
Join our Book Shop Volunteer Team. Please consider volunteering to help staff our expanded store hours at the Friends Corner Book Shop. Training provided.
Email Mary McCosker at friendscornerbookshop@gmail.com.

Short Shifts * Great People * Good Cause

For information on paid employment opportunities click here.