1. Get Involved: Powered By Your Library A New Initiative of the California State Library for 2008/09

2. Baby Boomers: Who Are They? & Why Should We Care? 77 million Baby Boomers born between 1946 and 1964 (in 2008 are ages 44 - 62) Volunteer currently at higher rates than past generations did at the same age Most educated and financially secure generation in history Have been in workforce & have professional skills they want to share to make high level of impact Nearly 2/3 of Boomer non- volunteers want to get involved but don’t know how

3. Great Expectations: Boomers and the Future of Volunteering VolunteerMatch User Research Study Presented by: Volunteer Match Where volunteering begins.

4. Long Overdue: A Fresh Look at Public Attitudes About Libraries in the 21st Century Americans who are active in the community and vote regularly are more likely to have a library card and favor taxes to support libraries. These are also the people that local politicians are most likely to listen to. However, these highly engaged citizens are generally unaware of funding issues that threaten library services. Source: A Report by Public Agenda supported by Americans for Libraries Council and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2006

5. Get Involved: Powered By Your Library Partnership with VolunteerMatch.org Advisory Task Force Pilot libraries identifying best practices Virtual Trainings archived to date: http://rurallibraries.org/webinar/12-03- 2008/ http://rurallibraries.org/webinar/12-03- 2008/ http://infopeople.org/training/webcast s/webcast_data/276/index.html May Training Institute on re-tooling volunteer programs

8. Get Involved: Timeline January - March –More virtual training –VolunteerMatch enrollment – post volunteer opportunities! February – –New VolunteerMatch hub site unveiled –Library Teams Apply for Get Involved Institute May 5 – 7 –Get Involved Institute

9. VolunteerMatch: Account Registration Every public library building will be loaded into the system – Won’t be active until you say so... Invitation from VolunteerMatch via e-mail soon! Do you want one centralized administrator? Separate ones by branch? Or another design? Library Director will be default administrator – you can change that later or give me designated administrator contact info now – invite will go to that person -- clehn@library.ca.govclehn@library.ca.gov Wondering if you are registered already? And if so, who/how? (clehn@library.ca.gov for list)clehn@library.ca.gov