Opportunities From: Volunteer Portal | City of Hillsboro

Help librarian set up the storytime area, assist as directed to help engage and focus attendees, help facilitate any activities or crafts, and help clean up the space after storytime.  This storytime is focused on children who experience the world differently, they attend with their caregivers and may have special sensory needs this type of activity is designed to address.  Experience working with differently abled students and caregivers helpful, but not necessary.  Guidance from the librarian is provided. A caring, patient, friendly personality is essential.

Help set up chairs, greet patrons, keep count of attendees, and help stack chairs at the end.  

Amigurumi is a style of Japanese crochet.  In this class, you'll help patrons create their very own adorable plushie, a piece of holiday pie!  Volunteers should have crochet knowledge, be patient, and supportive to help patrons accomplish the craft.  You'll help with set up and clean up too.

Lots to do to turn the event room into an Asian heritage festival!  Come help decorate, set up tables, chairs, and activities.  Some lifting (the heaviest would be the chairs which are a couple of pounds), bending, reaching, stretching.  Lots of being on your feet for a couple hours, but moving all the time.

Help patrons celebrate this Asian cultural harvest festival also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival.  It is marked by the full moon symbolizing prosperity and good fortune.  You'll help with welcoming patrons, facilitating simple crafts, and cleaning up.  

It's holiday/school break time!  Volunteers help keep out of school kids engaged by hosting activity tables, games, crafts and interactive learning experiences.  Volunteers help set up the activities/room, host the activity/game/craft then help clean up at the end of the event.  Excellent customer service skills, patience, and an enthusiastic engaging personality required to bring smiles to faces, and busy minds occupied!

Help with our October 4 donation event to collect supplies for our maker spaces at both locations.  Volunteers help with setting up the tents, tables, bins to receive donations, and then help greet our drive up patrons, help unload their donations, and then help sort the donations as directed.  Then at the end, help bring everything inside and take down the tents, tables etc.  Should be physically able to do some lifting (up to 20 pounds) to bend, lift, twist, grasp, sort, etc.  This donation drive is accepting all types of craft supplies from perler beads to fabric.  Staff will help you understand how to sort and process the donations.  It's not necessary to know a lot about crafting, but it is helpful to have some sense of what happens in our maker spaces, but for sure to have a great customer service attitude.  This event happens rain or shine.  Dress for weather (we have rain ponchos if needed). 

Help families engineer their amazing cardboard creations!  Using cardboard, duct tape, crayons, glue, staplers and imagination help kids and adults build a cardboard creation.  Volunteers help by keeping the cardboard ready, you are the ones with the box cutters, you have the tape/glue inventory, and you provide the encouragment.  Lots to do for volunteers who love to engage with creative kids!

Simple science is a hands on mini science event held once a month alternating between the two libraries. Volunteers help the STEM librarian with setting up the science activity tables, helping patrons experience the hands on science, and then staying to clean up and put away the supplies.  These events typically attract older toddlers to about grade 3, are very popular, and can be somewhat chaotic and loud. Some parents are more engaged then others so volunteers must be proactive in looking for opportunities to help little learners who may not understand the concept and need help accomplishing the hands on task. Online overview available to view prior to your first shift. Contact Volunteer office for link.

Help make the magic of story time happen!  Helpers assist with setting up the story space, sometimes prepping make and take materials a head of time (by arrangement), welcoming patrons in the room, helping them find a place to sit, then helping the story teller engage the guests in the story!  You'll do the hand gestures, sing the songs, act things out right along with the librarian leading the story time.  You'll help with the make and take activity then help say goodbye to patrons and help clean up the space.

Help make the magic of story time happen!  Helpers assist with setting up the story space, sometimes prepping make and take materials a head of time (by arrangement), welcoming patrons in the room, helping them find a place to sit, then helping the story teller engage the guests in the story!  You'll do the hand gestures, sing the songs, act things out right along with the librarian leading the story time.  You'll help with the make and take activity then help say goodbye to patrons and help clean up the space.

Be the first friendly face patrons see as they enter Brookwood Library. Volunteers welcome each patron as they enter and thank them as they leave.  You'll help with way finding, assist staff in occasional simple projects that can be done at the desk, and answer patron questions about library services.  Greeters share two hours per shift between hours of 10 AM-6 PM anytime library is open (occasional evening shift for an after hours event).  

Story time helpers assist our story time librarians by helping to set up the room (some lifting and moving of chairs and rolling tables), setting up the activities (usually simple hands on crafts) helping to keep the audience engaged, and assisting with clean up afterwards.  You'll keep count of the attendees, help them settle in, assist with name tags, and generally be another set of eyes and ears in the room.  The extent to which the story teller wants you to participate during the story varies.  Some enjoy having you also acting out the story as they tell it, others just have you sit with the audience or remain toward the back to watch for "escapees" and to help if people need to leave the room.  This storytime is geared toward 3-5 year olds.

Our cozy evening storytime for toddlers.  Help the librarian welcome attendees, help them settle in, assist with presenting the story as directed by the librarian, then help clean up and put things away.  These story times are designed to be calming, if an activity is included it will be a simple activity that will not "wind the kids up".  You are encouraged to wear your footie pj's and bunny slippers!  

Help people get their craft on!  Maker Mentors are crafty people themselves who thrive on helping others use the tools, equipment, and crafting supplies to explore their creative or artistic side! Maker Mentors learn the general safe operation of the various craft machines such as the button maker, sewing machines, heat press, 3-D printers, and digital die cutter.  From time to time new machines are introduced and you'll learn how to get people started on those too.  Other crafting tools include supplies to learn skills like beading, felting, scrapbooking, paper crafting, knitting, crocheting, weaving and more.  While it is not required to be proficient in a craft, it's helpful.  Your role as a maker mentor is to learn how to navigate the DIY written instructions and links to You Tube videos on the various equipment and tools, and to be able to help patrons understand the instructions so they can learn on their own.  You'll also help stock the craft supplies and carts, make sure the room is used safely, keep it tidy and welcoming, and if you are so inclined help someone learn to do what craft you might know.  

This storytime is always focused on a science theme including a science based activity related to the story.  Volunteers assist with set up, and are proactive in assisting young attendees with the hands on science portion of the activity. Volunteers will assist with clean up afterwards. Volunteers should be prepared for a high degree of interaction, have patience, and the ability to know when to provide help to the little learners. All will be attending with an adult, but some adults are more engaged than others. Volunteers will support storyteller by making sure supplies are available and being safely used, and anticipating the needs to keep the activity components ready to go at all times.  Discovery Storytime alternates with Simple Science monthly alternating between both libraries.