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When I worked for the Baltimore Visitor center, we used Volunteer Works
for volunteers to sign in using a 3 digit code. This kept track of their
hours. We were able to run reports and did not have to spend staff time
transferring hours into a separate data base.

I am currently working at the California Science Center and we use a
sign in book. We have had several instances where teen volunteers have
signed in and disappeared or had someone else sign in for them. This has
happened in the past but potentially an issue to consider. 

I am trying to get Volunteer Works (volunteer department has one
license) to a computer for our volunteers to sign in instead of the
"book". 

Lorry Comiskey

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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
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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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