Screen LibraryAcademic library mentoring : fostering growth and renewal /
"Intentional, effective, committed mentorships can help mentees understand their roles and develop their identities as librarians, library workers, or library science students. Mentorships also help mentees understand and meet performance standards, broaden their skills, shift to new specializa...
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Association of College and Research Libraries,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago, Illinois : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Intentional, effective, committed mentorships can help mentees understand their roles and develop their identities as librarians, library workers, or library science students. Mentorships also help mentees understand and meet performance standards, broaden their skills, shift to new specializations, and discern options for contributing to the larger institution and the profession. Through mentoring, mentors may be invigorated by contributing to the growth of mentees and by encountering ideas and approaches different from their own. Academic Library Mentoring: Fostering Growth and Renewal addresses the many dimensions of contemporary academic library mentoring and how best to engage in inclusive, effective mentoring"-- Mentoring in academic libraries implies a belief in the future of library employees, systems, the profession, and the principles that libraries uphold, signifying a commitment to the broader institution and to higher education's values of exploration, discovery, critical examination, and knowledge generation. These three volumes present a cross-section of mentoring thought and practice in college and university libraries, including mentoring definitions, practice fundamentals, models, program development, surveys, and analysis. It explores library mentoring programs and the lived experiences of library faculty, librarians, library staff members, graduate library and information science students, and library student employees.-- "Volume 1, Fundamentals and Controversies, details effective mentoring skills and behaviors, mentoring models, dysfunctional mentoring relationships, conflicts of interest in mentoring, and, through a feminist lens, power differentials in mentoring. Chapters on diversity, equity, and inclusion call for library personnel to understand the exclusion some experience in the profession and to implement more inclusive mentoring practices. Mentoring of Library Faculty and Librarians."-- "Volume 2, explores mentorship skills, models, purposes and issues, and program development. Mentoring purposes include support for the pursuit of tenure and promotion, other career goals, and psychosocial concerns. Issues incorporate understanding and addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion in mentoring. Chapter methodologies include surveys, program assessments, analysis of practices against standards, case studies of mentor and mentee lived experiences, and case studies of libraries and affiliated entities."-- "In Volume 3, Mentoring of Students and Staff, we hear the voices of library science students and library student employees as they describe their library school and library employment mentoring experiences. Also presented are mentoring programs for recruiting individuals to the profession, practices supporting all library employees regardless of formal employee classification, and methods for enhancing the skills of consortial members. The volume ends with a look to the future of mentoring and organizational development and with a tool any library employee at any career stage can use in forming their own mentoring constellation."-- |
| Carrier Form: | 3 volumes (xxvii, 180; xxvii, 181-474; xxvii, 475-656 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780838938867 0838938868 9780838937693 0838937691 9780838938973 0838938973 9780838938928 0838938922 |
| Index Number: | Z668 |
| CLC: |
G258.5 G251.6 |
| Call Number: | G251.6/A168 |
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Fundamentals and controversies -- Mentoring of library faculty and librarians -- Mentoring of students and staff. Fundamentals and controversies: Commitment, respect, and trust : the building blocks of a strong mentoring relationship / Updating mentoring models in academic libraries / Identification and management of dysfunctional mentoring types / Conflict of interest and ethical boundary setting in library faculty mentoring / Undoing the dyad : re-examining mentorship with a feminist lens / What's it going to take? : Unpacking the promise of inclusion / Cultivating diversity and inclusion in the Career Exploration In Librarianship And Mentoring (CEILAM)program / Mentoring of library faculty and librarians: Gathering data on mentoring needs and experiences of early-career librarians : the needs assessment stage of developing a mentoring program / Mentoring new academic librarians : a closer look / Toward a more formal mentoring program / Mentoring academic librarians for research success / All hands on deck : forming a mentorship program for tenure-track librarians / The predecessor as mentor : key lessons for cultivating growth in subject librarianship / They don't teach that in library school : valuable lessons in mentoring new librarians / Informal mentorship as a nourishing practice : building reciprocal trust / Group mentoring in a tenure-track environment / Gathering knowledge in your library : community mentoring for academic librarians / Group peer mentorship in academic libraries : an approach to enhancing research engagement / Conceptualizing academic mentoring : a research overview / Mentor-mentee's intellectual partnership : planting and growing the seeds for professional success / Mentoring of students and staff: A co-mentoring approach : cooperative modes of mentoring library graduate students / Building a library family : community college library internships and nontraditional mentor models as a means of recruitment, growth, and retention of librarians of color / Mentee 501 : how mentorship fits into the LIS graduate student experience / Incorporating formal mentoring : action planning for undertaking senior liberal arts capstone projects / Growing across the organization : mentorship as an open-ended process / How to train your yeti : a peer-driven consortial mentorship program of mythical proportions / Cultivating and sustaining a compassionate culture of mentorship / Mentoring as organizational development : future initiatives for academic libraries / Not just for the new librarians : mentoring and professional planning at mid-career / |