Teen Volunteer Training at North Regional/BC Library

2. • Get your folder and name badge
• Wear your badge at all times
• Sign in at volunteer binder
• Shelf-read your assigned section
• Shelve: ask Youth Services staff for directions
Your Name
When you arrive:

3. Get books to shelve from the
Circulation Area

4. You will be shelving Juvenile (J) &
Young Adults (YA) items:

5. Shelve in the proper place:
Organize the non-fiction
collection first in numerical
order then in alphabetical
order
Organize the fiction
collection alphabetically by
Author’s last name, as shown
on book’s spine

6. Sign-out at Youth Services desk.
Complete county's time sheet and school
papers.
Have desk staff sign you out.
Be aware of the different
locations for Picture
Books (EASY)

7. Sign-out at Youth Services desk.
Complete county's time sheet and school
papers.
Have desk staff sign you out.

8. Fix shelves while shelving…
Align books with the edge of the shelf

9. Book spines must face in the same direction
Turn large books that don’t fit upright on
the shelf; keep the spine facing up

10. When materials are not shelved correctly,
you will encounter …
Unhappy customers
or

11. And the wrath of the staff
OMG!!!

12. Before leaving:
• Put away empty carts in the Circulation
area
• Tidy up your work area before leaving,
as well as children and teen sections

13. Sorting and Shelving Exercise
• Click the link below and then Play
• Enter your initials and select one of the
characters
• Start with Sorting and go through all the
levels
• (Sorting, Shelving, Reordering)
Order in the Library