LFA Mentorship Program

• Addressing Psychosocial Factors with Library Mentoring (2017) portal: Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2017), pp. 51–69.

  The majority of articles on mentoring in the LIS field address career development by emphasizing the orientation process for new librarians and building the requisite skills for a specific job. Few articles deal with the psychological and social challenges that many early-career and minority librarians face, which can affect their satisfaction with their work. This paper argues that a more personal approach to mentoring—one that addresses such issues as racial microaggressions, the impostor phenomenon, and burnout—is needed to create a more welcoming, inclusive organizational culture.

• Building a Strong Foundation: Mentoring Programs for Novice Tenure-Track Librarians in Academic Libraries (2015)  Goodsett, Mandi; Walsh, Andrew. Building a Strong Foundation: Mentoring Programs for Novice Tenure-Track Librarians in Academic Libraries. College & Research Libraries, [S.l.], v. 76, n. 7, p. 914-933, nov. 2015. ISSN 2150-6701.

Increasingly, new librarians graduate to face a world of changing technology and new ways of interacting with information. The anxiety of this shifting environment is compounded for tenure-track librarians who must also meet scholarship and instruction requirements that may be unfamiliar to them. One way that librarians can navigate the transition to tenure-track professional positions is to participate in mentoring programs for new academic librarians.

• Level up your leadership with mentoring best practices

From Everwise, this list includes advice on setting clear goals and tracking your progress in achieving them. They also advice that mentoring partners periodically discuss and assess how the mentoring partnership is going.

• Mentoring: A Tool for Career Development in Academic Libraries (2019)

  David-West, Dr. Boma T. and Nmecha, Dr. Juliet Alex, "Mentoring: A Tool for Career Development in Academic Libraries" (2019). Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal). 2631. 

• Mentoring Best Practices: A Handbook, by Tine Reimers

An OER from University at Albany. This helpful handbook includes good information for mentees related to questions to ask, what kind of mentoring relationship do you want to develop, and more. All aspects of mentoring and mentoring programs are covered in this useful book.

• Effective Mentoring (2009) IFLA Journal 35(2): 171–182. DOI: 10.1177/0340035209105672

Effective mentoring is essential to the growth and success of librarianship in all types of library. This paper considers the possibilities for fostering mentoring activities among early career librarians, mid-career transitional librarians, and non-professional library workers.