Comments on: More volunteers than full-time librarians by the end of 2012 https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2012/04/more-volunteers-than-full-time-librarians-by-the-end-of-2012.html What's happening to your library? Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:27:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Ian Anstice https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2012/04/more-volunteers-than-full-time-librarians-by-the-end-of-2012.html#comment-259 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:27:23 +0000 http://83.170.89.36/~publicli/2012/04/more-volunteers-than-full-time-librarians-by-the-end-of-2012.html#comment-259 I often use the most eyecatching library related quote of the day as the headline. I thought this was the one for the current post. The figure does indeed need taking with a pinch of salt. Posibly a boxful. For another thing, as well as the points you mention, there are a very high number of part timers working in libraries: in ime, I am the only full-timer in 12 staff.

The headline is taken from the ecellent Booksell article above which puts it in context.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2012/04/more-volunteers-than-full-time-librarians-by-the-end-of-2012.html#comment-258 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:03:49 +0000 http://83.170.89.36/~publicli/2012/04/more-volunteers-than-full-time-librarians-by-the-end-of-2012.html#comment-258 The statement that very soon there will be more volunteers than staff in libraries surely needs some context. Doesn’t the CIPFA data indicate that, on average, a volunteer volunteers for
30-35 hours a year? Thus volunteers provide around 2% of the total library work hours. I wouldn’t have thought that was a disaster.

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