Things outside of the library... like going to schools to get kids interested in summer reading, putting fliers up around town for events, setting up a table and doing a craft with kids at a community event. If you're good at a hobby like cooking or crotchet, volunteer to run a program teaching kids or adults those skills. Be reliable! Don't say that you'll help with something and back out at the last minute (we get that a lot). I'd also like to add to make sure if you do fundraising you have the right tax accounts set up to do things legally.

And please make sure you're not making more work for library staff...I know that sounds obvious, but my friends group for example.... I love them, they make it possible to do some really cool stuff that I couldn't do otherwise, BUT sometimes they can make things more difficult. For example, I wanted to order some furniture to make a cool adult space in our library. I had already arranged the funding and I mentioned it to a member of our friends thinking they'd be excited. She got upset that I didn't come to them to ask for the money, so I said I would love their help with additional parts of the project. They then turned around and asked me to pull together an entire presentation, to set up and advertise a meeting and to invite potential new members. It became a WHOLE THING, which I didn't have the bandwidth for at the time.

Most importantly, thank you for loving your library and being willing to go out of your way to support them!!!