{"id":94,"date":"2012-10-09T17:59:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T17:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/?page_id=94"},"modified":"2025-11-04T01:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:21:12","slug":"volunteers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/community\/volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosting Consortium and Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Library Hosting Consortium, 2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Library’s public open hours are hosted by an inspired and deeply dedicated group of people:<\/p>\n

Thom Blum<\/a> \u2014 Sunday sound art installation, Library host since 2021<\/p>\n

Carolee Gilligan Wheeler<\/a> \u2013 Tuesday hours, Library host since 2015<\/p>\n

Jay Bolcik,<\/b> Library host since 2018; transit specialist; retired BART engineer<\/p>\n

Cofounders Megan & Rick Prelinger<\/b> since 2004<\/p>\n

Charles Kremenak,<\/b> alternate host since 2024 (previously Artist in Residence, 2019)<\/p>\n

Facilities: Jay Bolcik, since 2018<\/p>\n

Collections steward, 2025: Spencer Bowen<\/p>\n

Recent collections stewardship alumnae, 2022\u20132024: Lucie Rosenfeld, Sean Kawa<\/p>\n

For Potential Volunteers<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Library welcomes all inquiries about volunteering, and we are grateful for the community\u2019s volunteer support that has helped the Library reach a much larger array of artists, activists, scholars and the generally curious than we two co-founders could ever have done on our own. The Library is considerably volunteer-run, with people in our core community making an incredibly wide array of different contributions to the overall project. The common feature of all volunteer projects is that they arise organically out of people\u2019s personal engagement with the Library. We two co-founders are limited in our ability to develop, train, and assign projects on a regular basis. Rather, the volunteer relationships that have flourished are those in which the interested person develops their own relationship to both the collection and the Library as a social environment, and develops a proposal for what they would want their own contribution to be. <\/p>\n

Alumnae, Hosting Consortium and Volunteers<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Bryan Boyce,<\/b><\/a>Library host 2015\u20132020; 2021\u20132024<\/p>\n

Devin Smith<\/a> \u2013 Thursday hours and Stacks Explorer project, Library host 2018\u20132024<\/p>\n

Adrianne Finelli<\/b> Library host 2015\u20132020<\/p>\n

Nate Hoffelder,<\/a><\/b> Webmaster, 2016\u20132022<\/p>\n

Sarah Benlolo,<\/b> collections volunteer, 2015\u20132020<\/p>\n

Monica Westin,<\/b> Library host 2018 \u2013 2020<\/p>\n

Jessica Cebra<\/a>,<\/b> collections volunteer, 2018\u20132019<\/p>\n

Katarina Lachenal,<\/a><\/b> Library host 2017\u20132018<\/p>\n

Alicia Toldi,<\/a><\/b> collections volunteer 2017\u20132018<\/p>\n

Charlie Macquarie,<\/b> 2014, collections volunteer; Library host 2015\u20132019; Place Talks co-curator through 2020<\/p>\n

David Wiegleb,<\/b> Library host 2017\u20132018<\/p>\n

Annegret Spranger,<\/b> collections volunteer 2015\u20132017<\/p>\n

Tim Slaughter,<\/b> collections volunteer 2015\u20132016<\/p>\n

Lindsey Dupler,<\/b> 2015 volunteer, hosting support, off-site explorations, hospitality<\/p>\n

Christina Corfield<\/a><\/b> collections volunteer 2013; created the Finding Aid for the Oversize Ephemera collection<\/p>\n

Emma Hurst<\/b> winter 2013 intern<\/p>\n

Freya Channing,<\/b> collections processing lead and Library host, 2008\u20132011, and Fall, 2013<\/p>\n

Juliayn Coleman,<\/a><\/b> Summer 2010 volunteer bookbinder<\/p>\n

Heather Jovanelli,<\/a><\/b> collections volunteer 2011\u20132013<\/p>\n

Pamela Jackson,<\/b> collections volunteer 2006; Library host 2007<\/p>\n

Karla Nielsen,<\/a><\/b> Summer 2008 hosting support, collections stewardship<\/p>\n

Dawn Marsh Wilson,<\/b> 2009 hosting support, digital asset management<\/p>\n

Kevin Darling,<\/a><\/b> Summer and Fall, 2010, collections volunteer<\/p>\n

Antonella Bonfanti,<\/a><\/b>\u00a0Summer 2011, hosting support<\/p>\n

Courtney Fellion,<\/a><\/b> 2012 original WordPress site developer<\/p>\n

Sara Garvey,<\/b>\u00a0January 2012, collections processing<\/p>\n

Kris Ashley,<\/b> development volunteer, Fall 2013<\/p>\n

Jeremy Blatter,<\/b> Summer 2006 intern, Summer 2007 intern<\/p>\n

If you have made a contribution to the Library’s collections and public offerings and do not see your name listed here, please get in touch! Send an email to info@prelingerlibrary.org and we will rectify the situation immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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