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Volunteer Opportunity

The Build-a-Museum team's single greatest current need for volunteers is in informational tabling. Bill Lee is leading groups in tabling at community events, with the purpose of raising citizen awareness of the potential for a major museum of natural history to be located at LSU in Baton Rouge. Now that the LSU Office of Facility Development has selected three possible locations on campus, the need to push forward for permission to begin both strategic planning and fund raising is great. Having a pool of interested citizens is vital.

Tabling in the past has taken place at events such as Earth Day and the Louisiana Book Festival. Natural History specimens, educational handouts, and brochures on the museum effort are handed out by the tabling volunteers. New volunteers can watch the experienced ones explain, for example, the difference between a mammoth tooth and a mastodon tooth. Both ancient elephants were present in Ice Age Louisiana, though the browsing mastodons are much more common than the grazing mammoths.

Volunteering to table for a while is a pleasant way to enjoy the events, as when enough volunteers are present, some can be touring the event while others work at the table. Even volunteering for only an hour can give other volunteers a break.