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We provide black aprons for volunteers to wear. Our usual floor staff and educators wear black t-shirts. I used to just wear a volunteer ID when I first started. But it depends on how interactive the volunteer is going to be with the visitors.
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Date: Friday, October 21, 2011, 8:36 AM
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At the museum where I worked, volunteers wore vest like you described. They
were in a bright blue with our logo. They had name tags also. Lab coats are
hot and uncomfortable, so we stopped using those. The floor staff wore blue
polo shirts in bright blue with name tags. Volunteers could buy these to
wear, if they wished. We had a blue sweat shirt with the logo that some
preferred on cool days. Our HVAC was rather erratic, so it could be hot in
one area and cool in another.
Bill Trammell
National Science Center
Augusta, GA
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Hello Listserv Experts,
I'm in the process of accessing and potentially revamping our volunteer
wardrobe, if you will, and I'd love to hear about what other places do to
make their volunteers easily identifiable by visitors. Currently, our
volunteers wear either a vest or a smock in a sort of dull teal with our
logo as a sewn-on badge. (They also have name tags.) Many volunteers do not
like these garments at all...and neither do I, truth be told.
I'm going to survey the volunteers to hopefully figure out their feelings on
the matter (what's really wrong with the vests?), but in the mean time, I
turn to you. Personally, I like the look of lab coats, but I recognize their
downsides: hot in the summer, fairly expensive to get in bright cheery
colors... What has worked well (or poorly) for you? Is there a way for
volunteers to be easily spotted but also feel comfortable? (And yes, I know
that you can't please all the people all the time, certainly not on a
budget.)
Thanks!
Isabel
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Isabel Van Dyke
Programs & Volunteer Coordinator
ScienceWorks
Ashland, OR
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