Volunteers

The financial section of the report boasts, “The library had over 30,000 volunteer hours in 2005, the equivalent of over 15 paid staff.” The report lists 11 volunteers by name. It appears that many volunteers were not recognized in this report because those 11 volunteers would have completed approximately 52 hours a week to equal 30,000 volunteer hours. Meanwhile, the annual report from 2004 lists all the volunteers by name and the branch at which they volunteered. The report could have used less verbiage about the benefits of volunteers and used that space to recognize the others that have volunteered at the library during the year.

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