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This list has been compiled by Jennifer Lee Peterson. The resources on this list have been assigned a relevance rating (from 1-5) specifically for library staff identifying resources which could best inform a mentoring program design process.

I. GENERAL

The Mentoring Page from the Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits provides links to 20 mentoring resources mostly representing consulting agencies, both non-profit and for-profit. (Assembled by Carter McNamara, MA, PhD) The site also provides a number of links to other resources related to staff development. Relevance rating: 3 http://www.mapnp.org/library/guiding/mentrng/mentrng.htm

LIScareer.com - The Library & Information Science Professional's Career Development Center has a Mentoring resource page which links to 6 excellent articles by librarians on mentoring. There is also a short bibliography of print resources. Relevance rating: 5 http://www.liscareer.com/mentoring.htm

Coaching and Mentoring Network links to an exhaustive list of 67 articles all related to mentoring, including a number by Clutterbuck not represented in the Bibliography. Relevance rating: 5+
http://www.coachingnetwork.org.uk/ResourceCentre/Articles/Default.asp

Issues on Mentoring from DeLiberations, the website from the Educational and Staff Development Unit at London Guildhall University, England, prepared by Phil Race. A brief but thorough overview of mentoring, ending with a particularly unique presentation of mentoring dilemmas. Relevance rating: 3 http://www.city.londonmet.ac.uk/deliberations/mentoring/index_fr.html

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Mentoring Programs in Librarianship resource page Relevance rating :5+ http://www.alia.org.au/groups/mentoringnsw/mentoring/program.summary.html

Mentoring Australia, the official website of National Mentoring Association Australia, Inc. Provides a valuable list of benchmarks for developing effective mentoring programs. Relevance rating: 5 http://www.dsf.org.au/mentor/index.htm

Mentoring by Michael J. Freeman. Includes characteristics and roles of mentors and protégés and components of a successful mentoring program. Relevance rating: 5 http://www.sonic.net/~mfreeman/mentor/mentsupp.htm


II. BIBILOGRAPHIES

Making Mentoring Work- Resources from ALISE Diversity Workshop, 2000 http://www.ala.org/cfapps/archive.cfm?path=diversity/workshop_011000.html

Mentoring Program Resources compiled by Johnnie Love from the University of Maryland Libraries Mentoring Program
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ASD/LPO/mentoring/mpresources.html

Center for Coaching and Mentoring, assessment tools and bibliography of resources for the mentoring process. http://www.coachingandmentoring.com/Tools/index.htm

III. MENTORING PROGRAMS

University of Maryland, University Libraries Mentoring Program website with an especially useful link to the minutes from the 6 monthly Mentoring Task Force meetings which occurred during the design process in 2002. Relevance rating: 5 http://www.lib.umd.edu/ASD/LPO/mentoring/ 

Mentoring Program for the Yale University Library. Relevance rating: 3 http://www.library.yale.edu/scopa/mentoring/mentoring.html

Connecticut Library Association Mentoring program. Relevance rating: 2 http://cla.uconn.edu/membership/mentoring.html

Minnesota Library Association Mentorship Program. Relevance rating: 3 http://www.mnlibraryassociation.org/Mentorship/Mentorship%20Program%20Home.htm

New York Library Association's New Members Round Table Members Resource List. This is a good example of a network "menu" of mentors. It serves as a good resource for defining competencies. Relevance rating 5 http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=214

Medical Library Association, Academy of Health Information Professionals, Mentoring for the Academy. Relevance rating: 2 http://www.mlanet.org/academy/mentor.html

American Association of Law Libraries Mentoring Project. This includes links to documents with accounts of mentoring experiences. Relevance rating: 3 http://www.aallnet.org/committee/mentoring/mentor_project.html

Association of Research Libraries surveyed membership about Mentoring Programs. This summary, published in March, 1999, is short but useful. Relevance rating: 3 http://www.arl.org/spec/239fly.html

IV. COMPETENCIES

LibrarySupportStaff.com, a HUGE list of Library Staff competencies resources. http://www.librarysupportstaff.com/4competency.html

Library Practitioner Core Competencies from Western Council of State Libraries http://www.westernco.org/continuum/final.html

WebJunction's Competencies Topic Area. http://www.webjunction.org/competencies