See You on June 7th!
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Welcome to the YSG! Youth Service Group is a program that allows you to build skills, accumulate volunteer hours and help the library with programs, planning and more! You must be going into 7th grade to be elligible for this Group.
The application packet (PDF file) includes a letter explaining what YSG is, guidelines for YSG members, the application itself, and a task list for this summer, including dates and times for all programming, as well as other volunteer opportunities like the Summer Reading Registration Table.
If you have any questions, please talk to YSG Coordinator Edith Burney, or Head of Youth & Teen Services Karen Persello .
Our Summer Reading Program is just around the corner, June 7 to July 31. This year our theme is “Dig into Reading” for kids and “Beneath the Surface” for teens. We need your help with registering patrons, handing out prizes & helping with our special events. We can’t do it without you!
Come to the Volunteer Sign-Up & Orientation Session on Wednesday, June 4 or June 5, 3:30-4:15pm in the McKune Meeting Room. At this 45 minute meeting, you learn more about the Summer Reading Program. You will also get a sneak peek at all the great prizes to be given away all summer! Did I mention the YSG Volunteer Party on August 1st that only teen volunteers can attend? We will be having amazing giveaways and raffles just for YSG members!
New This Year: Become A YSG Reading Buddy!
Read to Your Library Buddy is a new program and the library needs your help to make it a success. Volunteer to listen to a child read to you every Thursday during Summer Reading, and help them gain confidence and strengthen their reading skills.
Read to Your Library Buddy is a new program and the library needs your help to make it a success. Volunteer to listen to a child read to you every Thursday during Summer Reading, and help them gain confidence and strengthen their reading skills.
• Read to Your Library Buddy pairs teen and adult volunteers with a (4th grade and lower) child on Thursdays from June 13-July 25 (except July 4th), from 2-3:30 pm, to read anything they want together.
• The program aims to help boost young readers’ skills and get them excited about reading.
• There will be a mandatory training session at the library on June 6 at 3:30 pm led by Lisa Kaemming, Reading Specialist from North Creek Elementary School.
• Volunteers sign up for 90 minutes, but each child has a 15 minute session, so they may see up to 6 children each time.
• Volunteers are not tutors, nor are they teaching how to read, rather, they are listening and encouraging and reading.
• Both volunteers (big buddies) and children (little buddies) may read during a session.
Bring your planner or calendar so you can sign up to help at our special events and schedule your shifts to help with registration.
• The program aims to help boost young readers’ skills and get them excited about reading.
• There will be a mandatory training session at the library on June 6 at 3:30 pm led by Lisa Kaemming, Reading Specialist from North Creek Elementary School.
• Volunteers sign up for 90 minutes, but each child has a 15 minute session, so they may see up to 6 children each time.
• Volunteers are not tutors, nor are they teaching how to read, rather, they are listening and encouraging and reading.
• Both volunteers (big buddies) and children (little buddies) may read during a session.
Bring your planner or calendar so you can sign up to help at our special events and schedule your shifts to help with registration.
