Comments on: Volunteering as a weapon https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2011/11/volunteering-as-a-weapon.html What's happening to your library? Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:42:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Elizabeth Bentley https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2011/11/volunteering-as-a-weapon.html#comment-167 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:42:19 +0000 http://83.170.89.36/~publicli/2011/11/volunteering-as-a-weapon.html#comment-167 Another point is the viability of raising money through room hire. Even if they can find the clients, what would be the impact on other venues in the neighbourhood, such as churches, who also rely on room hire to make ends meet?

]]> By: Shirley Burnham https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2011/11/volunteering-as-a-weapon.html#comment-166 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:05:27 +0000 http://83.170.89.36/~publicli/2011/11/volunteering-as-a-weapon.html#comment-166 Many still seem to think that a handful of volunteers coming forward to “run” a library will be sufficient. I beg to disagree.

In December 2008 I posted on my website a piece written by Mike Chaney of Dorset who is now the Chairman of AdLib.

Here is a quote from it, a man who knew from experience about the size a “pool” of volunteers must be for a specific number of opening hours :

“It would, in my judgement require at least 60 trained volunteers to undertake the 18 hours of opening which the Old Town Library offers now. And furthermore you would then still lack the professional input we so much depend on here.”

I suggest that people of good faith are being deliberately misled.

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