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1 Volunteer Opportunities
2 If you are interested in volunteering:

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Volunteer Opportunities

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GSLIS/Farragut School Library Partnership, Mission Hill

Over the past five years, the GSLIS and Farragut School Library partnership has continued to grow and is now entering its sixth year of collaboration. This has been a major focus of GSLIS community outreach efforts. The Farragut School is a k – 5 Boston Public School located off of Huntington Avenue within a 10 minute walk of the Simmons campus. The Farragut School is a long time partner of the Scott/Ross Center and the site of our America Reads and America Counts programs.

The GSLIS/Farragut partnership in the past has coordinated a children’s book drive, guest reader’s days, and an alternative spring break initiative. During spring break there will be opportunities to work in the library weeding, sorting, and processing new books along with promoting reading and guest reading in classrooms. This is an excellent opportunity to spend some time in an elementary school library while providing much needed assistance to the librarian and school. This partnership has been vital in the operation of the library. We are looking for GSLIS students who would like to join a committee made up of the Farragut School staff, GSLIS staff, and SRC staff. The committee meets monthly.

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Mission Hill School, Roxbury

The Mission Hill School, a progressive Boston pilot school that is known world-wide for its educational innovation, serves approximately 170 children in grades k-8. Classrooms consist of no more than 20 students, and are multi-age; most children spend two years with the same teacher.

This school has a diverse 10,000 volume library which is outdated and partially catalogued and is in the process of trying to get fully automated with the Sagebrush catalog system. Last year, a Simmons GSLIS alumna completed an assessment of needs. A GSLIS student created a project to reorganize the layout of the library. This fall they will concurrently undertake collection development, selection policy, a weeding list, book repair, establishing a computerized system to check out and return books, and continue library organization. Students who are interested in volunteering on a regular basis will be able to take on a leadership role and work on a project matched to their interests. We are also hoping to hold a one day service event in the fall for GSLIS students to help complete some of the above tasks.

The Mission Hill School provides GSLIS students the opportunity to be in a non-typical school setting open to different ideas and offering the possibility for volunteers to make a significant impact. Students interested in volunteering or helping to plan the one day service event should contact Michelle Sterk Barrett for more details.

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Brookline Public Library

The Brookline Public Library opened a new space in the library dedicated to teens in fall 2007. The Teen Librarian will be looking for volunteer assistance in the fall for staffing the room at all times teens will be using the space. Library school or education graduate school students who are interested in working with teenagers are preferred. At this time it will be a volunteer position, though there is the possibility to structure the time to help a student fulfill an internship or practicum requirement

Qualifications: Must be mature and a good communicator. Must have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to relate well to people of all ages. Very basic knowledge of computer operations is required

This summer, there will be a series of special events such as a gaming tournament (June 20th and Aug. 29th) and a scavenger hunt (July 25) and a Breaking Dawn (Stephanie Meyer’s last Twilight book) Book Release Party (Aug 2). They would love to have volunteers assist with any or all events. Each takes place from 12 noon – 5 p.m.

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