Beyond Mentoring
1st Edition
A Guide for Librarians and Information Professionals
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Description
Beyond Mentoring: A Guide for Librarians and Information Professionals looks at mentorship, mentorship programs, what works, what doesn’t, and different techniques, such as group and peer mentoring. The book considers many aspects of mentoring, various programs, and their successes and failures, going beyond the usual types of mentoring by looking at newer models.
An example of the cohort model from the American Library Association Emerging Leader model is included as a case study. In addition, another case study on the Sunshine State leadership Institute provides a toolkit for building your own program.
The final section of the book offers perspectives and tools that people can use in designing their own programs.
Key Features
- Provides case studies and perspectives from librarians who have been involved in mentoring programs
- Describes program types that go beyond traditional mentoring, including peer-to-peer and cohort or group mentoring
- Gives practical advice to help readers apply best practices to their own situations
- Offers a hands-on perspective of the program design process
Readership
Academic librarians and information professionals in higher education institutions
Table of Contents
Mentoring:
Two perspectives on the conference buddy program by Meredith Prather-Lowe
The LLAMA in the room, mentoring in the professional association
Mentoring for tenure and promotion by Lindsey Wharton
Formal Mentoring programs, the one on one model by Alys Jordan
Director and Mentee, perspectives from the new library director program by Danielle Theiss Dion
Beyond Mentoring:
A literature review of Informal mentoring programs
The Answerland Mentoring project, mentoring at a distance by Janeanne Rockwell-Kincanon
Mentoring the graduate student
Group Mentoring through Emerging Leaders by Caitlin Moen
Peer to Peer mentoring projects and the Expert database
Professional mentee, always learning from all sides of the mentor spectrum
The International Mentee, Crossing Cultures by Tamara Capper
Tool kit to building your own program by Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen
The DIY program in any situation
Getting perspectives from the population
To Hover or to fly; Time to launch a program
Measuring success
Details
- No. of pages:
- 146
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Chandos Publishing 2016
- Published:
- 17th November 2016
- Imprint:
- Chandos Publishing
- Paperback ISBN:
- 9780081012949
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780081012956
About the Editor

Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen
Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen is the Portland Operations librarian at the Oregon Institute of Technology. She graduated with her MLIS from Louisiana State University in 2003, though she has been in libraries in various forms since her first job as a student assistant in the library at Linfield College in 1996. Dawn has written other various works including co-authoring A Leadership Primer for New Librarians: Tools for Helping Today's Early Career Librarians Become Tomorrow's Library Leaders (2009).
Affiliations and Expertise
Wilsonville Campus Librarian, Oregon Institute of Technology, Portland, OR, USA
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