Mentoring Experience of Academic Librarians: A Pilot Study of Mentorship in Academic Libraries
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https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v35i2.7472Keywords:
academic librarian, mentoring, mentorship, mentoring programsAbstract
Librarians have embraced the critical role mentoring can play in the professional growth, socialization and leadership development for academic libraries. The author sought to understand mentoring experiences in career and professional development and psychosocial functions as well as barriers to entering mentoring relationships in New England academic libraries. Surveys sent to academic librarians at Association of College and Research Libraries/New England Chapter News Group invited them to share their experiences with mentoring relationships and its benefits. The study suggests that few structured formal mentoring programs from their own libraries exist for librarians outside of professional associations’ mentoring programs. Additionally, results suggest that the mentoring program antecedents of library organizational culture, prior positive mentoring experience are the main influencing factors for successful implementation of mentoring programs.Downloads
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2021-06-14
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Freedman, S. (2021). Mentoring Experience of Academic Librarians: A Pilot Study of Mentorship in Academic Libraries. Library Leadership & Management, 35(2). https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v35i2.7472
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