Academic library mentoring programs
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Academic library mentoring programs
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The resources identified on this page were originally provided by Jess Bruckner of the Kilbourn Public Library, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. Bruckner also maintains the WisLISjobs.com site.
If you know of other academic library mentoring programs, please add them or note them on the Talk page.
ACRL
- Leaders of the College Libraries Section saw a need to enhance leadership capabilities of new college library directors and to help them meet the challenges involved in directing libraries in small colleges. This program meets this need by fostering a mentoring relationship with an experienced library director. First-year directors gain access to someone who will listen to their problems and questions and provide feedback and possible solutions. The program combines library visits, a three-day seminar and a closed internet discussion group.
ARL
- The Research Library Leadership Fellows (RLLF) Program is an executive leadership program jointly designed and sponsored by ARL member libraries. The program exposes and engages library staff who have the desire and potential for leadership at ARL libraries to themes and institutions that will enhance their preparedness.
California
- A professional development program for senior level academic librarians. The program offers a unique combination of management perspectives, strategic thinking, and practical and theoretical approaches to the issues confronting academic institutions and their libraries. This is an intensive three-week residential program, most recently held in August 2007.
Connecticut
- SCOPA combines mentoring programs for librarians and future librarians. Both programs support professional development and open channels of communications between those at different levels and in different departments at Yale.
Indiana
- Indiana University of Bloomington Mentor Program Committee - scroll down on page
- The Mentor Program has as its goal to provide tenure track librarians in the Indiana University Libraries system with a mentor.
Louisiana
- All tenure-track faculty members participate in the program until they have finished the tenure process. General librarians may participate as protegees if they wish. Tenured faculty members serve as mentors on a voluntary basis. Mentors are not teamed up with mentees who report to them directly.
Maryland
- This program is offered to provide personal and professional development for all library staff, of all categories. It is designed to help staff succeed, to empower them to make decisions, to enhance self-awareness and to promote a sense of belonging.
New Jersey
- Rutgers University Libraries, Mentoring Program - scroll down on page
- Mentors assist new tenure-track faculty members in understanding and navigating the promotion and tenure process and assist them in understanding the culture of the Libraries and the University while helping them to seek professional development opportunities.
New York
- This program is open to any CUL librarian or archivist as a mentor or mentee, and non-professional staff members pursuing a library science degree are strongly encouraged to participate as mentees. The program offers three types of mentoring: Introductory, Promotion, and Publication/Research.
Utah
- The program is designed to help librarians achieve their potential, concurrently making them more marketable; make the Retention, Promotion and Continuing Appointment process more meaningful; encourage librarians to conduct research, initiate projects, and publish accounts of their work; and integrate the librarian into the library and university.
