Want to enrich your own life and the lives of others? Spread the love of reading and learning, curiosity, and tolerance? Improve your local branch library? Join more than 2,000 volunteers who share their time, skills, and energy to strengthen the library community.
Highlighted Volunteer Opportunities
All Individual Opportunities
- Adult Literacy Tutors (ages 18+)
- After-School Homework Helper (ages 16+)
- BCAP Teens (14-17)
- Book Buddies (ages 12-18)
- Citizenship Exam Coach (ages 18+)
- Computer Coach (ages 14+)
- English Conversation Group Leaders (ages 18+)
- First Five Years Volunteers (ages 18+)
- High School Tutor (ages 18+)
- Librarians of Tomorrow (ages 15+)
- Night of Philosophy and Ideas (ages 18+)
- Reading Troubadours (ages 18+)
- Resume Coach (ages 18+)
- Shelby White & Leon Levy Information Commons - Computer Coach (ages 18+)
- Shelf Organizers (ages 14+)
- Storytime Ambassador (ages 18+)
- Summer Meals (ages 14+)
- T4 - Today's Teens, Tomorrow's Techies (ages 14-18)
- Welcome Ambassador (ages 18+)
- Williamsburgh Library After-School Tutor with 826NYC
- Create Your Own Volunteer Assignment
Corporate and Group Opportunities
Become a Volunteer
- Review library hours & locations
- Complete an Online Application or
- Complete a Print Application and mail it to:
Volunteer Resources
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, New York 11238
Featured Volunteer
Wycliff Coward serves as both English Conversation Group Leader and Citizenship Exam Coach at Highlawn Library. Wycliff is recognized for going "above and beyond" his primary responsibilites to introduce and assist new Americans to the Library and its services, as well as the city's services.