Libraries
Service: Library and Information Service
Opportunities:
Staffordshire has 43 libraries, 2 travelling libraries and 6 mobile libraries.
Libraries offer a wide range of services including book borrowing, free access to computers and the internet, opportunities to join reading groups and take part in events, meeting room space and in larger libraries coffee and refreshments.
Libraries also offer a range of volunteering opportunities that enhance the library experience for local people.
These are:
- Bookstart Volunteers help library staff to deliver national Bookstart packs to clinics and early year’s settings
- Home Reader Volunteers help deliver books to people in their homes
- IT Buddies help people to develop their computer skills through 1-1 sessions in the library
- Library Volunteers assist with events and other activities in libraries
- Local Studies Volunteers support in the development and promotion of local history collections
- Summer Reading Challenge Volunteers help library staff to deliver the Challenge to children during the Summer months
You can read about one of our IT buddies,
Shirley here and find out what she does.
Area: Libraries across your area