Wednesday, October 29, 2008

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES!

SCALA places a high value on serving and contributing to our community. Here are two opportunities to do so within the next week. Keep posted, we'll let you know about more opportunites soon.

SISCO (School of Information Science Community Outreach) has scheduled the following service opportunities:

Book ‘Em: Sunday, November 2, 3-8 PM
We will fill and mail book requests from inmates across the country. Please come for the whole afternoon or stop in for a few hours. Bookem’ is located at 5125 Penn Ave, reachable on the 86B busline. http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org/bookem/

Millvale Library: Saturday, November 8, 10am-3pm
We will be helping to renovate and winterize the librarybuilding. Lunch provided! The Millvale Library is located at 213 Grant Avenue, Millvale,PA 15209 http://www.millvalelibrary.org/ML/Welcome.html

These are both great opportunities to contribute to the community and gain some experience as well. They have asked that you RSVP to sisco.pitt@gmail.com if you are able to attend. For more information about these projects, please view the SISCO blog: http://sisco-pitt.blogspot.com/

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