Librarian Peer Mentoring: Let Me Help You With That!

1. Librarian Peer Mentoring:Let Me Help You With That! Jessica Adamick Paulina Borrego Rachel Lewellen Annette Vadnais

2. University of Massachusetts Amherst Librarians’ Mentoring Program • Why Mentoring Matters • UMass Amherst Libraries • History • Logistics • Mentoring Program Wiki • Being a Mentee • Being a Mentor • Being both a Mentee and a Mentor

3. Evolution of Mentoring

4. Benefits to the Mentee

5. Benefits to the Mentor

6. Benefits to the Organization

7. University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries

8. Timeline January 2008 February 2009

9. Goals Sharing skills, experience, and expertise Providing support Expanding organizational perspectives Developing contacts Enhancing workplace satisfaction and retention

10. Open to: • New Librarians • Librarians seeking guidance • Exploring a career in librarianship

11. Logistics • Voluntary • Rolling basis • Mentoring Committee • Confidentiality • Matches • Duration • Supervisor

12. Support Release time Mentoring Check-in Administrative support Creates a culture of mentoring

19. Being a Mentee

20. Being a Mentor “Mentors are people who help others to reach their potential.” Jane Cranwell-Ward, Patricia Bossons, and Sue Gover, Mentoring: A Henley Review of Best Practice (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), xiii.

21. Being a Mentor …[my] mentors succeeded in doing what I, at first, did not know I needed – connecting me, as a librarian, to the larger community and culture. …. instead of saying “Here’s what you should do,” she was more likely to say, “Let’s think this through together.” Working with [my mentee] helped me to see what enormous gains can be made when colleagues allow themselves to trust each other, and to share ideas. Being a mentor to [….] has been an absolute joy for me. I have gained much wisdom from our conversations and I often wonder who is really the mentor and who is the mentee? …. I look forward to our ongoing friendship throughout our lives." Each of us has something unique to give to our colleagues. My participating in this structured mentoring “program” helped me to recognize that in myself; it’s something I now accept, gladly, as a professional responsibility. Despite my early doubts, I found my mentor/mentee relationship with […] to be challenging and inspiring.

22. Simultaneously being a Mentee and a Mentor “Mentoring is an ongoing process in which individuals in an organization provide support and guidance to others who can become effective contributors to the goals of the organization.” John C Daresh, Leaders, Helping Leaders, 2nd ed.

23. Librarian Peer Mentoring:Let Me Help You With That!

24. Questions? Comments? What’s Your Mentoring Story? jadamick@library.umass.edu pborrego@library.umass.edu rlewellen@library.umass.edu avadnais@library.umass.edu

25. Photo Credits Slide 1: State Library of New South Wales / Theatre Royal chorus, Tamarama Beach, ca. 1938 / by Sam Hood Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries: Slide 2: Library tower with other elements of campus / Buildings and Grounds / Item # RG150-0004683 Slide 3: Faculty Groups / Library Staff 1934-1961 / Item # RG120-0006234 Slide 4: Goodell Library / Buildings and Grounds / Item # RG150-0006233 Slide 5: Library Staff 1934-1961 / Faculty and Staff / Item # RG120-0006250 Slide 6: Library Staff 1934-1961 / Faculty and Staff / Item # RG120-0006247 Slide 7: Book processing / Library Tower / Item # RG150-0004718 Slide 8: Goodell Library / Buildings and Grounds / Item # RG150-0004399 Slide 9: GoodellLibrary / Buildings and Grounds / Item # RG150-0004408 Slide 10: Move in to Tower Ca. Summer 1973, Main floor / Library Tower / Item # RG150-0004660 Slide 11: Volunteers from Football team carrying boxes of light bulbs in library stairwell during Mass Transformation, 1986-87 / Library Tower / Item # RG150-0004705 Slide 12: Cindy Olken standing in library, pulling book out of stacks / Olken, Cindy, Student Trustee (1969/1970) Amherst Campus / Item # RG110-0003566 Slides 13-18: Mentoring Program Wiki / http://www.library.umass.edu/wikis/mentoring/doku.php Slide 19: Move in to Tower Ca. Summer 1973, Main floor / Library Tower / Item # RG150-0004665 Slide 20: Librarian / Library Tower / Item # RG150-0004724 Slide 21: Reflections on Mentoring Slide 22: GoodellLibrary / Buildings and Grounds / Item # RG150-0004422 Slide 23:GoodellLibrary Addition / Building and Grounds / Item # RG150-0004475 Slide 24: South face of The University Library, [1970's] / Library Tower / Item # RG150-0002037

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