Holding Your Hand From a Distance: Online Mentoring and the Graduate Library and Information Science Student

Buchanan, Elizabeth; Myers, Sarah E.; Hardin, Sherrie Langston

doi:10.9743/jeo.2005.2.4

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“…Library students want mentoring programs (Booth, 2008, p.76). Research conducted with online library school students found that "sixty-seven percent of the respondents agreed that mentoring would be helpful and would ultimately improve the learning experience" (Buchanan et al, 2005). With the help of a network connection, the use of virtual worlds allows anyone from anywhere to engage in mentoring regardless of geographic location.…”

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Mentoring interactively (MIing): new tools for librarian recruitment and retention

Gieskes

2010

New Library World

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Purpose -This paper aims to explore the viability of social networking software as a new tool for librarian recruitment and retention. Design/methodology/approach -Emerging technologies such as social networking software enable new and unique opportunities for the recruitment and retention of librarians. Social networking software can bridge the generational divide that exists between current library and information science graduates and library professionals. Boomer librarians, Bridge generation librarians and Next-Gen librarians all have things in common that may not be readily apparent when meeting face to face. However, in a virtual setting, a more egalitarian environment can be achieved. This paper aims to present how corporate, academic and government librarians -Bridge and Next-gens -created the first (as far as is known) virtual e-mentoring program using social networking software (IM, wikis, blogs, and virtual worlds). This virtual mentoring program was offered through the

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Mentoring interactively (MIing): new tools for librarian recruitment and retention

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2010

New Library World

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“…Concerns were raised towards the issues and challenges posed by online education on the mentoring of the online learning experience of students (Buchanan et al , 2005). The data collected by researchers from the respondents revealed two-way need for online mentoring of students, one to assist with the institutional maze and to help in career planning and development.…”

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Enrolment scenario of LIS education in India through distance mode: a study

Gupta

Singh

Pandita

et al. 2020

GKMC

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Purpose This study aims to assess the enrolment scenario of Library and Information Science (LIS) education in India offered through distance mode. Design/methodology/approach The scope of the study is limited to India, reflecting the trend of distance education in LIS in India. The study is based on the secondary data collected by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India (GOI) under All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE). It is to mention that Ministry of Human Resource and Development, GOI, is regularly collecting data from higher education institutions all across the country under AISHE project. The data in the study have been analysed for the period 2011 to 2018. Findings The findings of the study reveal that, of the total enrolments made in LIS education in India during the period 2011 to 2018, nearly one-fourth of students were enrolled through regular mode and three-fourth were enrolled through distance mode, signifying distance mode of education as the largest medium of LIS education in India. The enrolment figures through distance mode showed slight inconsistency with the result, a negative (−0.49%) average annual corresponding growth was recorded in the enrolment of LIS students through distance mode. Of the total students enrolled in different LIS programmes through distance mode during the period of study, the majority (67.78%) of students were enrolled in the Under Graduate programme (B.Lib.I.Sc.). Similarly, of the total students enrolled in LIS through distance mode during the period of study, 51.36% were female students and 48.63% male students. In terms of caste category, of the total students enrolled during the period of study, 10.12% belonged to the Scheduled Caste category, 4.7% to Scheduled Tribes category, 28.77% Other Backward Class and 56.08% to others, which include general category students as well. Research limitations/implications Learning through distance education is a welcome step as long as the idea is to improve the society and to reach out to those who hitherto remained unreached. Sustainable means of enrolment and employability has to be the order of the day, mostly based on demand and supply principle. Originality/value This study is original and first of its kind covering enrolment of the students in LIS courses.

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“…The course of a mentor-mentee pairing can depend on structural and relational factors, including co-location with a mentor, 7,8 frequency of communication, 9,10 input into the formation of a mentorship, 11 and the stability of the mentoring relationship over time. Prior data suggest that these facets of relationships with mentors can influence the course of a dyadic mentorship.…”

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The Changing Faces of Mentorship: Application of a Developmental Network Framework in a Health Services Research Career Development Program

Halvorson

Finney

et al. 2015

Clinical Translational Sci

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Historically, mentorship has been conceived of as a dyadic relationship between a senior mentor and an early-career investigator. Models involving multiple mentors have gained favor in recent years, but empirical research on multiple-mentor models has been lacking. The current work aims to fill this gap by describing a long-standing health services research mentoring program at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs which has adopted a network-based approach to mentoring. As part of a broader project, we surveyed VA HSR&D Career Development Awardees who received an award between 2000 and 2012. In total, 133 awardees participated (84%). Awardees reported on the structure of mentoring relationships with their two most influential mentors. Awardees were mentored by teams consisting of one to five mentors (M = 2.7 mentors). Most often, one mentor served as primary mentor while one or more mentors played a supporting role. In most cases, an awardee's primary mentor was co-located with the awardee, with fewer secondary mentors co-located. More recently funded CDAs had more mentors and were less likely to be co-located with secondary mentors. The VA HSR&D CDA program incorporates current thinking about Developmental Network models of mentorship into a comprehensive program providing a rich mentorship experience for its awardees. Clin Trans Sci 2015; Volume 8: 824-829

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Holding Your Hand From a Distance: Online Mentoring and the Graduate Library and Information Science Student

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

Mentoring interactively (MIing): new tools for librarian recruitment and retention

Mentoring interactively (MIing): new tools for librarian recruitment and retention

Enrolment scenario of LIS education in India through distance mode: a study

The Changing Faces of Mentorship: Application of a Developmental Network Framework in a Health Services Research Career Development Program

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