Hawaii Library Association Mentoring Program
Committee
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Suggestions on how to be a good
mentor or mentee:
Mentor:
If somebody contacts you to be his/her mentor,
please contact the possible mentee by telephone or
e-mail as soon as possible. Take a few minutes to “talk” to the
possible mentee before the HLA annual conference and
let the mentee know how he or she can contact you.
Find out if the mentee has any questions and make
arrangements to meet at the HLA annual or Spring
conference. Things that you might want to discuss with the mentee are:
- The mentee's professional or personal
interests
- How the HLA conference works--to help the mentee
get the most out of the conference
- How to become involved in HLA as a volunteer.
- In addition, introduce him/her to other colleagues, check on him/her
during the conference (especially at group social events), just to make
sure he/she isn’t lonely, and make an effort to contact your mentee periodically throughout the year.
- One year after the mentoring relationship, please fill out anevaluation form which can be found at the HLA Mentor
Program homepage.
Mentee:
If you do not hear back from the person you
contacted, please contact HLA Mentoring Program Committee chair Keiko Okuhara to facilitate the
communication. Either the chair or the possible mentor will contact you on the
status of matching. If matching is done, your mentor should make arrangement
to “talk” to you (by telephone or e-mail) before the HLA
annual conference. Be sure to ask him/her any questions you may
have. No question is too silly. Some things that you might want to
discuss with your mentor are:
- Your interests (either professional or personal)
- If you are attending the HLA annual conference, please try to contact
your mentor before the HLA annual conference.
- How the conference works (although you may have already arranged your
schedule, your mentor can help you get the most out of these sessions)
- How to become involved in HLA as a volunteer.
- Don’t be shy about asking to be introduced to other colleagues.
If you feel the need, arrange to touch base occasionally throughout the
conference.
- It is not necessary to commit to spending all of your time with your
mentor.
- If you don’t hear from the mentor, feel free to contact
him/her.
- One year after the start of the mentoring relationship, please fill
out an evaluation
form.
Links to Related Literature on
Mentoring
Feel free to contact the HLA Mentoring Program
Committee chair Keiko Okuhara with any questions or
comments.
This page last updated: 8 March 2008