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I have supervised volunteers at both Pittsburgh's
original Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular
Science and at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library and
Music Hall in Carnegie, Pennsylvania [which includes a
small Civil War Museum]. In both cases, volunteers
were simply expected to sign-in and sign-out of a
log-book each time they volunteered.

I fear that a time-clock would make volunteers feel
they are in a large bureaucracy which considers the
exact time of their shift more important than the
quality of volunteering the volunteer brings to the
institution. Even if it seems a simple solution, I
would refrain from having volunteers punch a
time-clock.

gaw

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> Date:         Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:24:21 -0500
> From:         Evanna Morris & Len Litowitz
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Volunteers punching in?
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> I am the Volunteer Coordinator of the Lancaster
> Science Factory in  
> Lancaster PA.  We are getting ready to open our
> doors to the public  
> on Jan 22 and getting ready to do volunteer
> training.  We thought  
> that getting a time clock would make documenting
> hours easier but  
> some of our people  think that it might make the
> volunteers feel that  
> we don't trust them and should just use a log book
> instead.  What is  
> the general practice?  Is this an insult to the
> volunteers?
> Your wisdom is appreciated!
> Thanks,
> Evanna

gaw

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