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    Beyond Mentoring: A Guide for Librarians and Information Professionals
    Beyond Mentoring: A Guide for Librarians and Information Professionals
    Beyond Mentoring: A Guide for Librarians and Information Professionals
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    Beyond Mentoring: A Guide for Librarians and Information Professionals

    By Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen

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    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.

    • 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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateNov 17, 2016
    ISBN9780081012956
    Beyond Mentoring: A Guide for Librarians and Information Professionals

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      Chapter 1

      Introduction

      What is Beyond Mentoring?

      D. Lowe-Wincentsen,    Oregon Institute of Technology, Wilsonville, OR, United States

      This book is called Beyond Mentoring. But what does that mean? When we talk about mentoring, we usually talk about one-on-one relationships formed through a program of some sort. As cochair of the American Library Association (ALA) Library Leadership and Management Association Mentoring Committee, I have seen how a traditional program works. One mentor is paired with one mentee. The pair is given some orientation, creates expectations, etc. There are best practices and many programs available at a variety of levels for the traditional mentoring relationship in information and library sciences. However, one size does not fit all for professional growth and development.

      I have been privileged to have a variety of different mentoring relationships in my career so far. I have been part of formal programs as both a mentee and a mentor, I have been informally mentored by supervisors, coached by colleagues and peers, and mentored in a group setting. Each type of relationship offers something different. In addition to what current professionals have experienced, there seems to be a renewed interest in mentorship and mentorship-type programs. In the Fall 2015 Oregon Library Association Quarterly, Jenkins Lumpkin writes a rousing call to mentorship. It is a battle cry from the new librarian, for the soon-to-be librarian to join ranks with the more experienced professional, and to learn the ever-changing world of information science together.

      At a convergence of being both a mentor, and a mentee, while working on two different styles of formal programs, and researching nonformal programs, while being a mentee to a volunteer position not related to the library sciences at all, I found myself wondering about what comes after mentoring. When someone has been a mentor, has been a mentee, has made connections with many people in many different ways, and is looking for the next way to share, what is available to them? What is there for the person just beginning, who does not know where to go yet, who may have received their degree from an online program with no personal contact with other professionals? What is there for the hands-on learner who has a project, get-’er-done focus, and who is looking for a partner? This book hopes to answer some of these questions and give options to those who are looking beyond the current paradigm. This book also looks at how to develop a program, and some best practices for successful programs. It even includes what to do when a program

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