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Mentoring and the Information Professional

The Career Guidance Committee of the Michigan Chapter, Special Libraries Association is sponsoring a program on mentoring. The purpose of this program is to bring experienced librarians and information professionals together with students and those new to the field in order to help them become integrated into the profession. All will benefit from this interpersonal contact. Librarians and information professionals who are willing to volunteer their time and are interested in sharing their expertise with another is a supportive relationship can be mentors. Mentees will be primarily Library and Information Science students at Wayne State University, and School of Information students at the University of Michigan.

Mentors and mentees will be "matched" according to their fields of interest, geographic location, and type of library. Each will be given the name and telephone number/e-mail address of their mentor/mentee. We hope that this experience will be rewarding to all involved. Thank you for your participation.


Mentor Program

Please complete the form below if you are interested in participating in this program.

I want to be a MENTOR

I want to be a MENTEE

Name:
Address 1:
Address 2:
City: State: Zip:
Home phone: Work phone: FAX:
E-Mail:
Library or Institution:


My work, subject specialization, and type of institutional environment include (Check all that apply):

Type of Work:

Acquisitions
Access services
Administration
Automation/System Administrator
Bibliographer
Bibliographic/Library Instruction
Cataloging
Collection Development
Digital Libraries/Information
Grants and Development
Electronic Resources
Indexing and Abstracting
Information Services
Internet/Network Resources
Network Administration
On-line Searching
Outreach
Preservation
Reference
Serials
Technical Services
Other:

Subject Specialization

Art and Architecture
Business
Children's Literature
Education
General
Law
Medical
Music
Science/Technology
Other:

Type Of Institutional Environment

Academic
Archives
Association
Consortium/Network
Consulting Firm
Corporate
Community College
Faculty (LIS, SI)
Government
Hospital
Information Brokerage
Museum
Newspaper
Public
Rare Books
Special Collections
School Libraries/Media Centers
Other:

   


Thank you for your submission. We hope to provide you with information as soon as we can. If you have any additional questions, please contact one of the Career Guidance Committee Chairs below:

Elaine Logan, Career Guidance - Wayne State University

Associate University Librarian
Eastern Michigan University
Bruce T. Halle Library
Telephone: 734-487-0020 Ext. 2222
E-mail: elogan1@emich.edu

Or:

Susan A. Pritts, Career Guidance - University of Michigan

Head, BDBS
The Library Network
13331 Reeck Road
Southgate, MI 48195
Telephone: (734)281-3830 ex 136
Facsimile: (734) 281-1905
E-mail: spritts@tln.lib.mi.us or spritts@pritts.com.


Last Updated: 4-February-2008