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Are You My Mentor?
New Perspectives and Research on Informal
Mentorship
Julie James, Ashley Rayner, and Jeannette Bruno
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Agenda• Personal Introductions
• Research Introduction
• Formal Mentorship
• Informal Mentorship
• Why Mentorship?
• Quick Survey
• Survey Discussion
• Conclusions
Where Did This Idea Come From?
Formal Mentorship: A Definition
A mandated senior-junior dyad with the purpose of the senior employee imparting
wisdom about operational procedures in the institution to prepare the junior employee for
promotion.
Examples of Formal Mentorship
• College and university tenure-track programs
• ACRL Dr. E. J. Josey Spectrum Scholar Mentor Program
• YALSA’s Virtual Mentoring Program
Informal Mentorship: A Definition
“Informal mentoring has minimal to no structure and oversight and may
or may not have a clear and specific goal.”
Best Practices: Mentoring. United States Office of Personnel Management. September 2008.
What Makes a Good Mentorship?
• Goal-Setting
• Reciprocity
• Challenging
• Education
• Je ne sais quoi
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Why is Mentorship Important?
• Recruitment
• Retention
• Inclusion
• Development
• Understanding
• Technological literacy
Especially for Librarians of Color
• Increased challenges
• Pipeline development
• Reflecting campus diversity
Any Drawbacks/Concerns?
• Initiative
• Lack of Confidence
• Too Much Structure
• No Connection
We know mentorship is valuable, but is informal mentorship just as
legitimate as formal mentorship?
Short Survey/Audience Participation
• Have you had a formal mentorship?
• Have you had an informal mentorship?
• Have had no type of mentor relationship?
Our Survey
• 2707 possible participants
• 223 respondents completed the survey
• 153 held MLIS degrees
“This survey is completely useless because the definition of informal mentorship is inadequate. What is the difference
between informal mentorship and simply having colleagues who, in an ongoing fashion, give you good advice or listen to
your complaints? It is misleading to try to force "mentoring" into a box with boundaries around it, except for formal things --
which I would prefer to call internships or the like.”
-Respondent
Demographics
Informal vs. Formal Mentors
Mentors by Institution Size
What Makes a Good Mentor?
What Defines an Informal Mentoring Experience?
What Defines a Formal Mentoring Experience?
Supporting New Librarians
Questions?Contact us at jamejuli@my.dom.edu, ashley.rayner@elmhurst.edu,
and jeannette.bruno@elmhurst.edu.
Mentoring OpportunitiesALA and its divisions offers opportunities for mentees and mentors, discussion groups, and affiliate mentoring
programs.http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/mentoring-opportunities
http://www.ala.org/educationcareers/mentoring/mentoring_and_recruitment_efforts
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