V olunteers can and should be an important part of every nonprofit organization.
This is not only to save money though it can do that but because
it is a right of people to have an active share in those institutions which
are supported by their tax or philanthropic dollars. The volunteer portion
of our society is undergoing some dramatic changes today which offer new
challenges and many new opportunities to all organizations which are alert
to what is happening. I don't know a great deal about the detailed operations
of libraries (although I worked in one at one time) , but the basic principles
of volunteer participation and management, I am sure, apply to libraries
as they do to hospitals, school systems, and social welfare agencies.
To understand these changes, we must look at what is happening to
people today which has an effect on volunteering.
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