Open AccessBook Review: Mentoring A to Z
Author(s) -
Janet B. Croft
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.55n3.246a
Subject(s) - mentorship , promotion (chess) , professional development , succession planning , public relations , human resources , business , faculty development , management , medical education , psychology , political science , pedagogy , medicine , economics , law , politics
Staff training and development programs are aimed at all library employees. These processes communicate job expectations, orient the worker to the organization and its resources, and provide information about the library’s mission and goals. Mentorship programs, on the other hand, are more often developed for employees at the professional or faculty level, and, ideally, they deal with issues such as long-term professional career development, promotion and succession planning, and retention (or tenure in tenure-track faculty situations).