Animal Welfare Professionals

Sign-in book/sheet for volunteers and visitors. People sign in the date, their name, check off whether they are a volunteer or visitor and time in and time out.  (See attached simple form - we find this spacing works well for most people to sign in legibly.)

Those who are visiting the shelter as part of a course (high school or college) sign in to the main book as either volunteers or visitors (depending on if they have had training - most of them do) and then sign in to the log that is kept at the front desk if required by the course. 

If the community service is court ordered, then a log book at the desk makes sense to maintain privacy - I'd still have folks sign in at the main book so we have total numbers in one place and don't need to patch together various sources. 

This has worked very well for us. Staff at the front desk ask those who seem to be walking right by the sign-in book if they would mind signing in because it helps us with record keeping. So far, this only gets smiles and "of course."