If you have some free time and would like to meet new people, we can use your help!
By volunteering, you can put your unique skills to use and help us to provide quality services to our patrons, as well as contribute to our community. Most people think of traditional library tasks such as shelving books when they think of volunteering, but we’d like to expand our ideas of “library volunteer”.
Any skill you would like to share with others could become a library program for the community. Here’s what volunteers have been doing recently:
-Andrea Mattson is our “traditional” library volunteer, and helps us each week doing everything from numbering book series, to helping prep for Storytime, to decorating the library for holidays.
-Sheila Hornby, Sarah Bernard, Sally Sundborg, and the Sessions and Sapp families have helped tend the library gardens. (And a shout out to several of the Friends of the Library, who got the garden ready for the season!)
-Caroline Grimm presented a local history program about Cloe Perley, an enslaved woman who lived with the Perley family of South Bridgton.
-Toni Fuller offered to teach a Pasta Workshop, showing participants how to make homemade pasta from scratch.
-Patti Dann brings her therapy dog, Ally, each week for children to practice their read-aloud skills with.
-Ginger Watson volunteered to donate indoor plants–and most importantly, to take care of them!
-Reed Foster is organizing a chess club for adults.
Please contact Library Director Kathleen Kramer if you’d like to discuss this further!