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Latest revision as of 10:45, 5 November 2013

Committee Charge

The Mentoring Committee's responsibility is to develop mentoring programs, but currently supervises both conference mentoring and career mentoring programs. The Conference Mentoring Program matches mentors with new members at the ALA Annual Conference. The Career Mentoring program is an October - July program that making mentoring available to those who can't attend conferences. Finally, the committee is charged with exploring ways to use technology and up-to-date communication methods to expand mentoring initiatives and preparing guides dealing with mentoring.

History of the Committee

Major Responsibilities

  • Publicize the career and conference mentoring programs.
  • Coordinate the conference mentoring program at the annual conference.
  • Coordinate the career mentoring program from October through June, including providing monthly discussion topic emails.
  • Explore new ways to employ technology in mentoring initiatives.
  • Prepare guidelines for mentoring programs.
  • Improve the web presence of the committee by adding content such as mentoring guidelines, how to conference information, etc.

Procedures Used to Accomplish Major Responsibilities

  • Create web submission forms and other means for interested participants to sign up.
  • Work with other NMRT committees to publicize the program.
  • Add content to web site.
  • Research other mentoring programs to plan the all-year round mentoring program.
  • Use email communication to stay in touch with committee members and mentoring program participants.

Committee Composition and Term(s) of Office

  • Co-Chairs: 2
  • Members: 5
  • Appointment for Chair/Co-Chair : 1 year (annual to annual)
  • Appointment for member : 1 year (annual to annual)

Reports to

Member Services Director

Contact People for Accomplishing Committee Objectives

  • NMRT President
  • NMRT Vice-President/President-Elect
  • NMRT Outreach Director
  • NMRT Member Services Director
  • NMRT Student and Student Chapter Outreach Committee

Publicity Needs

  • Official press releases
  • Posting to other discussion lists
  • Working with liaisons

Records Generation and Archiving Schedule

  • List of mentoring program participants. To be kept for 5 years.

Forms Used by the Committee

  • Mentoring program application forms. Both the Career Mentoring Application Form and Conference Mentoring Application Form are available on the NMRT portion of the ALA web site.

Documents to Create/Update (e.g. Flyers, Brochures, etc.)

  • Mentoring Guidelines
  • List of mentoring program participants (on-going)
  • Mentoring program announcement/call for participants

Reminders and Helpful Hints

(need to create)

General Timetable

July

Co-chairs to introduce themselves to committee and set objectives and priorities for the year.

August

  • Planning report prepared and distributed to NMRT Board and committee members.
  • Clear and make any updates, through the Web Committee, to the Career Mentoring Application Form.
  • Establish a deadline for Career Mentoring Applications toward the end of September.

September

  • Contacts with other ALA committees to solicit applications for the Career Mentoring Program.

Send mentor program announcement and application to:

  • Student and Student Chapter Outreach Committee
  • Affiliate and state associations

October

Career Mentoring Program pairs should be matched. Each pair should be assigned to a member of the committee who will provide monthly discussion topics and troubleshoot issues with the mentoring pair.

November

Footnotes copy due

November-January

Review and update, with assistance from the Web Committee, the online form for interested participants in the mentoring program for ALA conference.

January

Midwinter meeting.

February-April

  • Submit progress report via ALA Connect.
  • Review of Midwinter meeting.
  • Establish list of participants for web site.
  • Continue to update website and contacts for broadening program.

March

  • Footnotes copy due

April-May

  • Publicize Annual meeting mentoring program.
  • Pair mentors and mentees.
  • Notify mentors and mentees of responsibilities and procedures.

June

  • Send Students-to-ALA reception invitations to program participants and committee members.
  • Send invitation for program participants to meet in the assigned room next to NMRT Social.
  • Organize Annual conference meeting(s).
  • Submit Final Report.


Last Revised: November 2013

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