Committee Final Report

NOTE: ** = Required Field

**Type of report being submitted: Final Report

**Date: June 21, 2005

**Committee Name: Mentoring Committee

**Supervising Board Member: Laura Kortz

**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs: Samantha Schmehl Hines & Sarah Sutton

**Committee members: Samantha Schmehl Hines – Co-Chair, Sarah Sutton – Co-Chair, Christine Borne, Jennifer Cella, Leland Deeds, Arwen Hutt, Marissa Priddis, Janis Seagrave

**Goals, Objectives, Projects completed (including, but not limited to, any procedures, tip sheets, checklists, etc. created during the reporting year):

Completed Career Mentoring Pilot Project—matched up ten mentors/mentees, sent out monthly discussion topic emails for six months, administered survey to evaluate and assess the pilot. A report on the survey and the project as a whole will be sent to the committee members and supervising board member by the end of June.

Conference Mentoring completed successfully. We used an online application form again this year and matched 39 pairs of mentors and mentees. The evaluation form was upgraded to an online form as well, using Survey Monkey. We forged a successful relationship with LITA through which a large number of mentors were recruited.

**Action Items/Issues To Be Resolved – What plans/projects remain which will be carried over or postponed until next year? Have there been any substantial changes in plans requiring a reconsideration or cancellation of projects? Information regarding such will be helpful for future chairs and planners.

Career Mentoring will be carried out on a year-long basis starting next year, with a larger group of pairings. Sam is continuing on the committee and will head that up.

Conference Mentoring evaluation data will need to be examined and suggestions used to plan conference mentoring at ALA Annual 2006. The Mentoring Get Together which piggy backed on to the NMRT Meet & Greet was extremely successful, bringing at least 50 people to an event which was much less heavily attended at Annual 2004 in Orlando. I highly recommend continuing the Get Together. I further recommend that the 2005-06 Committee consider using its budget to purchase some kind of decoration (ribbon, sticker, etc.) for mentors and mentees to attach to their conference badges that identifies them as members of the NMRT Conference Mentoring Program. Depending on the success and usefulness of this year's evalution, the Committee might also consider spending their budget on a subscription to Survey Monkey or a similar survey mechanism. I recommend that the relationship with LITA be nurtured and expanded. As a result of this relationship, we experienced much less last minute work seeking additional mentors. The NMRT Mentoring Committee web pages could use some updating, particularly the expectations of mentors and mentees and the suggested activities in which mentors and mentees can participate together.

Financial Report Section:

Your budget appropriation (see budget)	a. 25.00
Amount which you have spent this year	b. 0
Difference between budgeted amount and amount spent (a-b)	c. 25.00

**Report submitted by: Samantha Schmehl Hines and Sarah Sutton

**Email address: Samantha.hines@umontana.edu, sarah.sutton@mail.tamucc.edu