Two different approaches to mentoring new library and information professionals: Chardonnay or Shiraz?
(2003) Two different approaches to mentoring new library and information professionals: Chardonnay or Shiraz?. In Proceedings Celebrate the Future: 10th Asia Pacific Special, Health and Law Librarians' Conference, Adelaide.
Full text available as: |
Abstract
ALIA has two different mentoring programs operating for new library and information professionals, one in Western Australia and one in Queensland. Both programs aim to ease the transition from student to professional librarian. In Western Australia, a group mentoring program is available for students from December in the year in which students finish their course until the following October. This group mentoring program has a second aim of developing a peer network that can keep operating once the formal program finishes. In Queensland, the mentoring program is offered within the Professional Practice unit of the course enabling students to be partnered with individual mentors. The program runs from the middle of the student year and continues for twelve months. This paper discusses the range of methods for mentoring young information professionals and discusses a research project which reviews these two programs in terms of professional development opportunities and personal learning outcomes for both mentors and mentees.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Keywords: | mentoring;professional development;librarianship;library and information studies;library education |
| Subjects: | 400000 Journalism, Librarianship and Curatorial Studies > 400200 Librarianship > 400201 Librarianship |
| ID Code: | 5241 |
| Deposited By: | Moody, Kim Elizabeth |
| Deposited On: | 17 October 2006 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://conferences.alia.org.au/shllc2003/, http://conferences.alia.org.au/shllc2003/papersmainindex.htm |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2003 (The authors) |