Volunteer

There are countless ways to participate. Whatever your age, background, or ability, there's a way for you to help your museum. You can volunteer as few or as many hours as you want.
Here are just a few ways to help your Lawrence County Museum:

Tend the front desk: Volunteers can also attend to the front desk to greet museum visitors and answer the phone. This is a low activity job and requires only a friendly and helpful personality.

Write a story for the museum’s newsletter, The Seedling Patch. Joyce Shepherd has info on how to help with this. Index to previous articles.

Attend events: Volunteers are needed to pass out programs or give directions. There are plenty of other opportunities to get involved with programs like Brain Games and History Fest. Volunteers help set up, hand out programs, and answer visitors' questions.

Carpenter assistance: Volunteers who are comfortable with tools can help create exhibits.  

Computer assistance: We need volunteers who are comfortable with a computer to enter data and type out information to be printed and placed with artifacts, or to help put some information into a computer database.

Design interest: Ideas for new gallery exhibits are always welcome, and helping hands are needed to create the exhibits.

Graphic design: Volunteers who have experience in desktop publishing can create posters, etc. for the museum. Most of this work is done with the volunteer's personal software and computer. Printing of the large format pieces is done on a case by case basis with local printers.

Identify photos: Your museum has hundreds of unidentified photos and is looking for volunteers with an extensive knowledge or memory of Lawrence County people and places to help put names with faces and places. 

Smile: Volunteers are needed to offer a friendly greeting to visitors.

Strong muscles: Volunteers are needed to lend a hand with moving items.

This list will continue to be updated as needs become available.

How you Can volunteer

Contact any of the following people for questions about how you can participate:

Collections Manager:  Jeff Routh the Collections Manager. He is responsible for researching, documenting and caring for the museum’s extensive collection of historic artifacts. He also manages the museum’s information technology infrastructure.
Email: jeff@lcmuseum.org • Phone: (812) 278-8575

Collections Specialist: Marla Jones is the Collections Specialists.
 Email: marla@lcmuseum.org • Phone: (812) 278-8575

Librarian: Joyce Shepherd is the full-time librarian in the Edward L. Hutton Research Library. She has been helping with the museum and library since 2000 and accepted the librarian position in 2002.
Looking for the librarian?  Joyce is at the museum Tuesday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 
Email: joyce@lcmuseum.org • Phone: (812) 278-8575

President: Rowena Cross-Najafi joined the museum as President of the Board in August 2009.  Since retiring in 2007 from a 20-year career as a Foreign Service Officer, Rowena has been an active volunteer with the BRI Historic Preservation Committee, the Lawrence County Concert Association, the Lawrence County Art Association, and the Bedford Rotary Club. Rowena and her husband are the proud owners of the 1904 former Lawrence County Jail and Sheriff's Residence.
Email: president@lcmuseum.org
Phone: (812) 278-8575