Comments on: Using The Tools At Hand

By: Swiss Army Librarian » On Maintaining Extra-Library Websites :: Brian Herzog

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:30:08 +0000

[...] be the first to admit that the Chelmsford Volunteers site isn't a marvel of design. We created it a few years ago to be a centralized listing of organizations in town that have volunteer opportunities, because [...]

By: Carleen

Carleen — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:14:32 +0000

I don’t really have any suggestions to offer but I just wanted to say what a wonderful project this is. I’m working on a similar project but it’s a much smaller scale and we’re not making a database out of it. We already have several non-profits in the community who have done that, but the only problem is that they don’t always keep them up to date (http://www.volunteerbartlesville.com/), ie, contact people have a high turn over, etc. We’ve also been wanting to do something similar with book clubs in the community. We probably don’t have more then ten or fifteen that are active in our town so we could just list them on our website somewhere but I would imagine how neat a database of local/active book clubs for a large urban community would be.

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:43:27 +0000

It looks as though they're using a national program to run the site, but you might be interested in looking at what Serve Wyoming is doing. I'm planning to write them about your project, too, as they're undertaking new initiatives to deal with a volunteer shortage.