Tweaking the Summer Teen Volunteer Program

Sam Stavole-Carter writes: “This year I have begun to notice a marked decline in overall availability of our teen summer volunteers at Mesa County (Colo.) Libraries. What did we do wrong? We expected too much, and we didn’t anticipate attrition. Fortunately, we are still receiving plenty of volunteer applications, so finding new volunteers isn’t an issue. However, I believe tweaking the structure of the volunteer program to make it more agile could naturally preclude such issues. Here’s what we will be doing next year.”...
Read Sam's full article HERE.