The Volunteer Program incorporates volunteers into the Library to increase public access to Library resources and to enhance the work of paid staff in a manner which benefits volunteers, staff and the South Australian community. Our program abides by equal opportunity principles and Library goals and policies to provide a fair, safe and enjoyable working environment.
Volunteer work is organised into discrete projects.
Each project is typically of several months' duration. The Volunteer Coordinator ensures that the input of volunteers is integrated with that of paid staff to achieve successful completion of projects. Volunteers have played an important part in the work of the State Library of South Australia since its inception. One of the earliest volunteers was Lucy Lockett Ayers who started assisting in the 1920s and continued through to the 1960s. The present State Library Volunteer Program was initiated in 1995.