Volunteer

Volunteers are the heart of the Placitas Community Library

Placitas Community Library is largely run by a staff of approximately 90 volunteers. Through their generous donation of time, the library is available to the community.

Our staff of volunteers performs day-to-day activities at the library such as assisting our patrons at the Help Desk, shelving materials, and cataloging. Library volunteers also help with special events, art and design, landscaping, publicity, and more. All levels and types of skills are needed. Orientation and training are provided.

Volunteering offers you opportunities to meet other interesting people, learn new skills, and make an essential contribution to our Placitas community. If you would like to join us, we’d love to have you.

Immediate Volunteer Needs

Volunteer Positions

Volunteer Application

We have an immediate need for the volunteer positions below:

Updated 5/8/24

Adult Programs Committee Member: This position involves meeting monthly as a committee member to plan, develop and coordinate through presentation the various programs that the library hosts yearly.
Landscape Team: Volunteer for landscaping work days held periodically throughout the year. You will be put on an email list and notified when a work day is being scheduled.
Parking Jedi: Assist with parking for special events held at the library when larger crowds are expected. There are approximately 6 events a year that need parking assistance. Daytime or nighttime shifts are 2 hours long. You will be put on an email list and notified when an event is being held.

Building Maintenance Committee Member: Committee members to meet monthly to ensure that all routine maintenance is being covered for the library and to plan for occasional maintenance jobs such as painting of sheds, commemorative brick laying etc.
Community Liaisons: Volunteers needed to orient the public in opening, closing, and using audio visual equipment for meetings that have been scheduled. Assisting with set ups and take downs for meetings. Assisting with coordination of parking needs with adult programming and Children’s programs with the coordinators for those departments.

Volunteer Positions

Adult Programmming

Placitas Community Library puts on two or three special programs for adults every month. These include talks by authors, how-to workshops, history presentations and more. Volunteers are needed to arrange for speakers, work with the program speaker on special needs, set up the room for the event, create and distribute flyers, arrange other publicity. Persons are also needed to work on the Adult Programs Committee in planning and supervising events.

Advertising

The library has a need for someone to create flyers, posters, signage, and other similar work. The work can be done at home. Familiarity with basic computer programs for creating documents is a plus. Those with additional skills can update our various social media accounts through a login identity created by the library. The various flyers or posters will then be broadcast to those who follow Placitas Library.

Building Maintenance

Cataloging

Children's Programming

Placitas Community Library offers two or three special programs for children every month and a series of weekly programs over the summer. These include story time for 2-5 year olds, a book club for 7 – 11 year olds, and talks by authors of children’s books. Volunteers are needed to assist with these programs, arrange publicity, and so forth. Persons are also needed to serve on the Children’s Services Committee to plan and supervise special events for children such as Dia de los Muertos, Lunar New Year, and other festival-type celebrations. We could use a volunteer to keep the children’s section of the website up-to-date.

Donated Book Team

Placitas Community Library has a Donated Books Team that helps financially support the library with books and DVD donation sales. This team processes and prepares books donated by the community. They list books for sale on the PCL Amazon account as well as place books and DVDs in the lobby for sale. Some of these books are also catalogued and put into the library collection.

Financial and Tax Expertise

Grant Writing

Help Desk

IT (Information Technology)

Landscape Committee

Legal Expertise

Library Board Membership

Processing and Labeling

Shelving and Maintaining Shelf Order

Also known as “shelf-reading”, maintaining shelf order is essential in order for patrons and staff to find materials in the library. A volunteer checks a particular set of shelves on a regular basis to ensure that all the materials in that area are in the correct call number order. Volunteers are also needed to shelve new materials and materials that have been removed from the shelves. Volunteers may work at their own schedule but on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis.

Volunteer

Volunteers are the heart of the Placitas Community Library

We have an immediate need for the volunteer positions below:

Volunteer Positions

Adult Programmming

Advertising

Building Maintenance

Cataloging

Children's Programming

Donated Book Team

Financial and Tax Expertise

Grant Writing

Help Desk

IT (Information Technology)

Landscape Committee

Legal Expertise

Library Board Membership

Processing and Labeling

Shelving and Maintaining Shelf Order

Other

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Operating Hours

Closing Dates 2026