Membership

• Maintains accurate records of the membership.
• Designs and distributes membership applications.
• Prepares and mails membership renewal forms.
• Prepares and distributes membership cards to members.
• Prepares literature to explain the benefits and role of SRFOL.
• Creates new approaches to increase awareness and membership.
• Establishes contact with the membership perhaps through cards, thank yous, etc.
• Coordinates with the treasurer and membership records personnel.
• Forwards copies of the current membership list to the Corporate Friends of the San Diego Public Library.
• Assesses current renewal policies and membership category status and makes appropriate recommendations to the board.

Folio Newsletter Editor

• Edits and publishes the Folio publication (ideally 4 times per year).
• Collects and publishes articles from the SRFOL President and the Library Branch Manager.
• Collects photos and/or writes articles for publication.
• Compiles an event schedule for upcoming 3 months.
• Performs the bulk mailing of the Folio (this task takes about 10 hours quarterly).
• Provides an electronic copy of the Folio to the webmaster for inclusion on the SRFOL website.

Pleasure of Your Company Music Program

• Selects and coordinates with performers.
• Creates flyers for monthly concerts.
• Assists with setting up of chairs, serving refreshments, packing up, and cleaning up after each event.

Children's Programs

• Arranges for children's programs from a list of city approved resources.
• Contacts and schedules performers/community room.
• Creates flyers for children's program events.
• Monitors monthly children's programs.
• Conducts the annual student essay contest; reads and evaluates student essays.
• Plans and coordinates the Summer Reading Program.
• Assists with set up, refreshments, and clean up at events.

Hospitality

• Shops for items needed at various SRFOL events.
• May plan refreshments for POYC concerts.
• May plan/coordinate other events which include refreshments as needed (with assistance of other volunteers), e.g., the annual volunteer recognition event.

Volunteer Coordinator

• Contacts individuals who have indicated an interest in volunteering with SRFOL to help match their interests and availability with SRFOL needs.
• Assists with coordination of the annual volunteer recognition event.

Publicity

• Writes short articles about the SRFOL for the monthly SRCA Newsletter which is submitted via email; photographs (in jpg format) usually submitted with article (often photo is obtained from another SRFOL Board member or library staff member).
• Prepares publicity promoting monthly POYC concerts and submits to San Diego Union-Tribune, multiple community newspapers, and various websites (e.g., KPBS, The Reader, Sign-On San Diego; submitted via email or through on-line form on website (sometimes requires communicating with performer to obtain photo, updated information).
• Occasionally prepares publicity promoting special events sponsored by the SRFOL.
• Approximately every 2 years, plans and prepares a centerfold spread ("Focus" section) featuring the SRFOL for the SRCA Newsletter.
• Directs and provides content for the SRFOL website.

FSDPL Liaison

• Attends the monthly Friends of the San Diego Public Library meeting (generally 10 or 11 months per year).

Grace's Book Nook (GBN)

• Interviews, schedules, and coordinates volunteers for Grace's Book Nook.
• Compiles and publishes a monthly calendar for volunteer shift assignments in Grace's Book Nook.
• Reports on Book Nook sales at monthly Board meetings.
• Purchases GBN sales supplies (sales receipt books, ledgers, pens, envelopes, etc).
• Prints cash envelopes for use with shift receipts.
• Works in coordination with library staff to process donated books.
• Prices books for sale in the Book Nook.
• Trains other volunteers on pricing, shelving, and selling books.
• Coordinates special monthly discount book sales.
• Substitutes for volunteers who miss their assigned shift.
• Other volunteer opportunities include:
  • sorting, pricing, and shelving donated books
  • researching potentially rare books on the Internet
  • cleaning and repairing damaged books
  • periodically alphabetizing shelved books by authors' last names
  • culling unsold books for disposal
  • coordinating exchanges of unsold books with FSDPL and Friends' chapters at other libraries
  • covering 2-1/2 hour shifts in Grace's Book Nook on regular basis or as substitute

Bookplates

• Writes and mails letters to SRFOL members and friends soliciting donations for the SRFOL Holiday Bookplate program, which rewards donors by placing a bookplate with the donor's or honoree's name in one or more library books.
• Sends letters to honorees and acknowledgment letters to donors.

Special Events

• Assists with setting up special events (project based).

Website

• Maintains the SRFOL website with general SRFOL information and sponsored events.
• Coordinates with POYC, Childrens' Program, and Book Discussion Group coordinators as well as the Publicity Chairperson, to ensure timely and accurate information is placed on the website.
• Edits digitized photographs for use on the website.
• Creates, collects, and edits clip art and other graphics for use on the website.
• Processes annual Internet domain registration.

Audit Committee Chair

• Supervises the annual audit of the financial records of the SRFOL.
• Chairs the audit committee (typically 2-3 people; major work occurs in July and August and tends to take 5-8 hours).

Photographer

• Takes pictures at SRFOL events.

Historian

• Collects and collates materials from SRFOL events into scrapbooks.

Display Cases

• Decorates display cases in the entryway of the Scripps Ranch Library and changes the displays periodically (display cases are used to promote Grace's Book Nook and the SRFOL).