Introduction
What is Beyond Mentoring?
D. Lowe-Wincentsen, Oregon Institute of Technology, Wilsonville, OR, United States
This book is called Beyond Mentoring. But what does that mean? When we talk about mentoring, we usually talk about one-on-one relationships formed through a program of some sort. As cochair of the American Library Association (ALA) Library Leadership and Management Association Mentoring Committee, I have seen how a traditional program works. One mentor is paired with one mentee. The pair is given some orientation, creates expectations, etc. There are best practices and many programs available at a variety of levels for the traditional mentoring relationship in information and library sciences. However, one size ...
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