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585 Franklin Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Phone: 650-903-6337 

Library Hours
Mon - Thur  10:00am - 9:00pm
Fri   - Sat    10:00am - 6:00pm
Sun              1:00pm - 5:00pm
A Call for Volunteers

You can help people; do community service; meet new people; learn skills; get school credit; influence others; build self confidence, and feel needed.

The City of Mountain View Public Library is looking for detail oriented, self-motivated individuals 13 years of age and older with a perfectionist's mentality to volunteer in Children's Services for 2-10 hours per week. Applicants should be enthusiastic and eager to learn; responsible and punctual; respectful and considerate; and open to taking on new tasks.

Volunteers will be asked to:

  • put books in alphabetical or numerical order
  • help prepare materials for children's programs
  • shelf-read collections in Children's Services to make sure that books are in order
  • organize and shelve magazines, videos, dvd's cd's, cassettes, etc.
  • be ready to perform other tasks as assigned.

Volunteers in Support Services will be asked to:

  • mend, repair, and clean books and other circulating materials
  • replace booster tags on CDs
  • produce duplicate barcodes for circulating materials
  • maintain collection of gift books.

The applicants should be:

  • detail oriented and focused
  • responsible and punctual
  • equipped with good manual dexterity.

Applications are available in Children's Services on the first floor of the Library. Interviews will be very brief and may take place when the application is submitted. For more information please contact:

Maynard Martinez
Volunteer Coordinator
City of Mountain View Public Library
585 Franklin Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Phone: 650.526.7043
Fax: 650.526.7041

Rev 09/25/08