TOPIC: Professional Development - Mentoring
WHEN: Tuesday, May 14th, 6:30-8:30p
WHERE: Cafe Allegro, 40th and University Ave.,
in the U District (the little cafe upstairs at the College Inn)
Discussion Article: (this is a long explanation)
Professional development has surfaced a few times as a potential topic
for a reading group meeting. This topic has many sub-topics making it
prickly to approach. (Okay, shoot me for mentioning a hierarchy.) Recently,
however, one of those sub-topics, "mentoring", is appearing
more frequently in conversations and articles. (Or does it just seem to
be more frequent because Dana recruited Melissa and I to be mentors at
the iSchool at the University of Washington.
Believe ourselves to be decent researchers we began searching the web. We could not find a free web-based resource outlining mentoring in general terms with suggestions for mentors and mentees. We did find several lists of mentoring resources available offline, all yours at an additional cost of either money from your pocket or time to go to your library and photocopy. In searching we did learn a bit. There is both formal and informal mentoring. A lot of formal mentoring programs exist > for child/adult, student/teacher and new teacher/experienced teacher. Plus, formal mentoring programs seem to be on the rise in the corporate setting. Or, consultants with websites and mentoring services are trying very hard to convince us of that.
Absent the perfect resource we settled on a handful of items freely accessible to try to convey mentoring, both in a formal sense and what may be out there stirring things up.
For the meeting cruise through these sites. All are fairly short.
Guide for a specific FORMAL mentoring program
- Federal CIO Council Mentoring Guide
http://www.cio.gov/Documents/ciomentoringguide_07_02_01.doc
Specific planning guides for specific pieces of a specific FORMAL mentoring program
- Pharmacy Mentoring Relationship Guide
(form to fill out to better acquaint you with your mentor/mentee)
http://www.hhs.gov/pharmacy/mentrela.html
- Pharmacy Mentoring Planning Guide
(form to fill out reporting on a meeting with you mentor/mentee)
http://www.hhs.gov/pharmacy/mentplan.html
from the Fast Company site
- An Unorthodox Guide to Mentoring
http://www.fastcompany.com/launch/launch_feature/mentoring.html
- Women's Way of Mentoring http://www.fastcompany.com/online/17/womentoring.html
- Radical Mentoring
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/17/radment.html
applying technology to mentoring
- E-mentoring
http://humanresources.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2
Fwww.askanemployer.com%2Fmentor.asp
Supplemental Reading:
---Resource lists---
- http://library.ucr.edu/COLT/bibmentoring.html
(Libararian and > non-librarian focused resources)
Information: Melissa Riesland riesland65@yahoo.com, Dana Bostrom (bostrom@u.washington.edu), or Vivian Bliss (vbliss@microsoft.com).
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