VAP: Go on...Be Thankful!

This year we have over 150 volunteers at our library to say thank you to. Each year, we try to do just that by throwing our annual Volunteer Appreciation Party (VAP) during National Volunteer Week in April.

Every year is a new theme and employees at the library get together to present the latest comedy sketch as our special way of saying: U ROCK! Volunteers and library employees have a chance to mingle, chat, eat great food and laugh at the antics of the staff as we let them know just where we are with their fantastic assistance.

It's just a heckuva lot of fun and this year get yourselves ready for Beaufort Branch Library to present: WBCPL: A Cowboy Radio Roundup

Gear up cowboys and practice your yodeling...yep yodeling cause this year's production will make you laugh until it hurts...especially after all that food!

Ain't life swell!

"Silence equals nonexistence.
If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed."
--Margaret Cho

It's a great new year and another great opportunity to get out and do something for your community! Be a volunteer cause the world needs more caring folks who want to help.

You can volunteer in all kinds of neat ways and one of those happens to be at your local library.

If you are interested please click on this LINK for more. Remember, we have five different branches so wherever you are, Hilton Head, Lobeco, Bluffton, St. Helena or downtown Beaufort...we need you!

Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith.
But what do we remember him for?
His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that it's done above and beyond earning a living and deals with what people really care passionately about.
Remember, no one gets paid to rebel. All revolutions start with volunteers.
-- Susan J. Ellis


At the end of our life our questions are simple:
Did I live fully? Did I love well?
-- Jack Kornfield

Seems like January is the time to volunteer! We have had several new applications already with more calls each week. Our library system owes a lot to the generosity of our volunteers and patrons. Want to become one? Click here to find out more about our volunteer opportunities.

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Another year....another opportunity!

Happy New Year!

Time to say hello to 2007. Start it off right by becoming a volunteer! Volunteers are needed in all walks of life from the smallest organization to worldly efforts that can reach the four corners. Want to start out in your local community? Then look at your local library! We have so much to offer and can always use your fantastic skills. For more information try visiting you local library's website or branch. For those living in our neck of the woods, check out our information on our website at www.bcgov.net or just click HERE :)

"How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment:
we can start now,start slowly changing the world!
How lovely that everyone, great and small,
can make a contribution
toward introducing justice straight away."

~Anne Frank