Help foster a love for reading as a Library Class Volunteer!
Interested in helping out in our school library? We welcome all the help we can get. If interested, please email Library co-chairs Tina Chan Go (tinachango15@gmail.com) and Dayna Lau (dayna_lau@hotmail.com) for more information and access to the shared volunteer Google calendar. Please note volunteers must be cleared to be able to help in our library during school hours.
About the role
The primary role of the library volunteer is to check-in/check-out books, reshelve books, and assist the Librarian as needed during class time. On occasion there may be other jobs throughout the year including, but not limited to, labelling books, preparing signage, re-arranging the collection and decorating the library for holidays.
There are 24 classes that visit the library each week. Each library session should ideally have one volunteer present. As such, volunteers are requested to commit to a weekly 30-40 minute session to ensure consistency and coverage. Volunteers are welcome to sign-up for any library session, whether it be for their own child’s class, another class with a more suitable time, as well as multiple classes, as any additional help is very much appreciated. If there is more than one library volunteer for a particular class, the volunteers may arrange among themselves how best to share the role (e.g. two volunteers for the same class could work alternating weeks).
Please reach out to your child’s homeroom teacher to find out their designated session time, or click here for the weekly schedule to see if there are other times that may better suit your schedule. All library volunteers assisting during school hours must be cleared and authorized by the Burlingame School District. If you are not yet cleared but wish to be, please get in touch with the school’s Secretary to start the process.
Key McKinley Contacts
- Librarian – Maria Potenciano: mpotenciano@burlingameschools.org
- Library co-chair – Tina Chan Go: tinachango15@gmail.com
- Library co-chair – Dayna Lau: dayna_lau@hotmail.com
- Secretary – Loralie Soohoo: lsoohoo@burlingameschools.org
Library Calendar: Please find below when teachers and classes will have their library time
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