Assignments From: City of Tigard

For this 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Service event, volunteers will meet at Family Promise of Tualatin Valley. Families with kids are encouraged to attend this event. Under 18 must have a parent or guardian present. When you respond to this volunteer assignment, please include a note about how many kids you are bringing. You will need to sign a waiver for your child/children when you get to the volunteer location. Thanks.

Families will make valentines for guests in preparation for Valentine's Day. There will also be opportunities for light maintenance, if the valentine-making area is full or you prefer that instead. If you want to make yourself available to paint or clean, please wear clothing that can get dirty!

For this 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Service event, volunteers will meet at Akwaba Food Kitchen to make sandwiches and sack lunches for our local partners serving unhoused community members, such as St. Anthony Catholic Church. We'll also have a station set up to make cards to accompany the lunches. No food handler's card needed. Masks & gloves provided.

For this 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Service event, volunteers will meet at Community Warehouse, a furniture bank. We will sort donations and also assemble their "Clean Home Kits" which are given to their clients to help them set up their new home. Volunteers may also sort donations depending on attendance numbers. Teen volunteers welcome but must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.

Bin Sorters commit to a weekly shift. Volunteers move returned books to carts for shelving.  

Volunteers will exclusively work on organizing unsorted carts into order so they are ready for shelving. 

For this 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Service event, volunteers will meet at Tigard Public Library to create buttons, postcards, and more to stock the library for Disability Pride Month. All ages welcome. Volunteers under age 12 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s profound recognition that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” paved the foundation of the Disability Rights Movement. From disability activists who marched with Dr. King including Jim Letherer, Rev. Kenneth Brown, and Wade Blank to modern disability rights activists dedicated to breaking stigmas, increasing autonomy, celebrating community, and furthering intersectional justice, generations of civil rights activists have been moved by Dr. King’s assertion of his right to define his own humanity. 

Are you passionate about sharing these principles with a new generation? Or are you starting to learn about the Disability Rights Movement and curious to learn more? Do you enjoy sharing your perspective – and/or do you enjoy making buttons, stickers, or postcards?

In this one-day program support position, volunteers help the library prepare for Disability Pride Month by making buttons, stickers, postcards, and more. As a volunteer, you will be able to create and take some items to share with your own community as well as create resources for the library to distribute.

This volunteer opportunity is hybrid. All registered volunteers will be emailed a link to the online session two days before the event. Volunteers are also welcome to participate in-person at the library.

To protect high-risk individuals from respiratory viruses (COVID-19, Influenza, RSV, etc.), the library will provide KN95 respirators (masks) to wear during the event and COVID-19 at-home test kits two weeks prior to the event. Receiving/wearing masks and/or testing supplies is voluntary.

Access information: The event space is wheelchair accessible. There are gendered restrooms nearby with accessible stalls large enough to turn a wheelchair, grab bars, and paper towel dispensers (no hand dryers). There is a single-occupancy, all-gender restroom farther in the library with enough space to turn a wheelchair, grab bars, and a paper towel dispenser (no hand dryers). The event space will include a dedicated table for volunteers who would not like to socialize, and all tables will include various styles of chairs. Interpretation, including ASL interpretation, is available by request and delivered through a library-provided tablet. If you need additional accommodations or have an access question not listed here, please contact event organizer Becca at becca.reyes@tigard-or.gov or 503-718-2516.

Assessing donated materials to determine their status (sellable, usable, donatable, or to discard), prepping donations for the   Friends of the Library to process and keeping the Donated Materials section of the library rolling shelves organized.

Want to do a volunteer activity on your own time, in your own neighborhood? We have just the thing for you. For this 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Service event, volunteers can print flyers for Comfort Zone, a Tigard peer-run drop-in center operated by the mental health nonprofit New Narrative. Then, put the flyers up (after asking the proprietors, of course!) in your local coffee shop, grocery store bulletin board, small business window, employee breakroom, at your work, or anywhere else that they will be seen. You can also post about Comfort Zone on your personal social media. We want to help get the word out about this great community resource to Tigard residents.

These flyers advertise free drop-in groups and activities that are open to all and run daily at Comfort Zone. Groups and activities include those focused on recovery from substances, TED Talks, alternatives to suicide, LGBTQ+ support, game nights and more.

Print these at home or at the library if you don't have a printer, or if you prefer, email alex.richardson@tigard-or.gov ahead of time to arrange pick up copies at Tigard City Hall (only available on Thursdays between 7am and 2pm!)

For this 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Service event, volunteers will meet at the Tigard Senior Center/Meals on Wheels People. Volunteers will clean the kitchen, dining rooms, library, and downstairs areas of the Senior Center and make it sparkling and inviting for guests! Cleaning supplies will be provided and will include soap and water, citrus degreaser, and bleach water. Masks and gloves will be provided.

Volunteers will organize the Holds Wall to ensure items are in the correct location and will shelve any holds that are ready for patrons to pick-up.

Volunteer checks in and rotates newspapers on a weekly bassis

For this 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Service event, join Tigard Turns the Tide and the STUDD (Stop Tigard Underage Drinking and Drug Use) Club at Tigard High School in creating posters to promote and support National Random Acts of Kindness week in February. All supplies provided. Participants will have the opportunity to take home their posters and put them up at their home, work, or children's schools. Parents and youth are encouraged to attend together! Space is limited. Only volunteers who sign up in advance will be accepted due to room capacity.

Do you love precision and order? Can you sort with Dewey and alphabetize with ease? Are you looking for an ongoing position in the very heart of library operations? If so, we’d love to have your support as a Shelver!

Shelvers push carts of library materials from the workroom and place each item in its correct spot on the library shelves. Shelvers do their best to ensure no books are lost. When the materials carts aren’t organized, Shelvers will sort a cart before shelving. This position involves following detailed rules in the shelving guide and shelving in all areas of the library.

This position is physically demanding with repetitive reaching, bending, twisting, squatting, and reading small print. Shelvers regularly push a cart of books, lift books, and access the top, middle, and bottom shelves of the library's collections.

Shelver is a Circulation position. Circulation volunteers are required to complete three shifts per month. Shelver shifts are 2 hours long and available during most library hours. If you have completed the library's Circulation volunteer training, you may sign up for this position.

Do you have an eye for detail? Are you passionate about precision? Do you have a knack for numbers and an aptitude for alphabetization? If so, we'd love to have your support as a Stacks Steward!

On an ongoing basis, Stack Stewards review library collections to look for lost materials and ensure each item is in its proper place. This involves reading, organizing, facing, balancing, and tidying library shelves. At the beginning of each shift, Stacks Stewards review the list on the Circulation bulletin board or check in with a Circulation lead worker to learn the highest priorities for the shift.

This position is slightly less physically demanding than the library's other Circulation volunteer positions. Volunteers should be comfortable pushing a small cart of books, lifting books one at a time, and accessing the top, middle, and bottom shelves of the library's collections.

Stacks Steward is a Circulation position. Circulation volunteers are required to complete three shifts per month. Stacks Steward shifts are 1 hour long and available during specific library hours. If you have completed the library's Circulation volunteer training, you may sign up for this position.

Would you like everything to look as good as new for the Library building's reopening in May? Are you cautious to make sure every item is accounted for? Are you comfortable getting up high and down low to check every nook and cranny for misplaced materials? If so, we'd be delighted to have your help as a Straightening Sleuth! 

Straightening Sleuths methodically examine every collection in the library to retrieve books or other items that may have slipped behind or under the stacks. After an area is examined for missing items, the Straightening Sleuths neatly pull all the items to the edge of the shelf to make the collection easy to peruse. In addition, the Straightening Sleuths may do so light balancing of shelves which involves moving materials from one shelf so that the shelves are roughly even with sufficient "wiggle room" for each item. 

This position is physically demanding with repetitive reaching, bending, twisting, and squatting. Straightening Sleuths regularly lift books and access the top, middle, and bottom shelves of the library's collections.

Straightening Sleuths is a Program Support position. If you have completed the library's volunteer orientation, you may sign up for this position. This position is open to: Ages 18+; All ages accompanied by an adult. 

You know what the library needs? YOU! Be a leader. Join Teen Library Council and help plan events for all ages, create displays and set the direction for teen library services.

Drop-in projects for teens